PRESTOPUNDIT

A SLAP OF REALITY for George Bush from David Broder:

Implicit in Bush's stance is the assumption that the election-period dialogue is the exclusive property of the parties and their candidates. But that is not -- and never has been -- the law, and it hardly fits the realities of America's pluralistic society. The institutions and individuals with a stake in the presidential election are far more numerous than two parties and two candidates. All sorts of other groups .. have much riding on the outcome. By what logic are they to be prohibited from running their ads?

Who doesn't see that what is driving Mr. Bush here is nothing other than the raw self-interest of the moment without any regard for America's most fundamental rights and prinples? Rather un-American of him, I'd say. Posted by Greg Ransom