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Empty Rhetoric Makes Revealer Forget Its Values
09 December 2004Virginia's Republican Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore says he's running for governor on moral values -- banning gay marriage, ditching a law that limits gun purchases to one a month, and ignoring the part he played in the state's nasty political wire-tapping scandal. Well, ok, he's not counting that last one as "value," per se, but he certainly isn't letting his sketchy past throw any shadows on his current stance of moral rectitude. Democratic Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's also claiming "values," and he's even fuzzier about what it means -- something too valuable to confine to a definition, it seems. The two squared off in a debate moderated by TV "analyst" Larry Sabato, who, if this report can be trusted, challenged neither on the meaning of this word "values." But we don't think this report can be trusted -- the reporter also takes "values" at face value. Oops -- there's that word again -- it's such a valuable term. We value it almost as deeply as our values.
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