Nitty Gritty? Yes. Dirt? Yes. One Step over the Line? A mile over and counting. -- Cheney's "wrong choice"; Part III

9-10-04's The Macon Telegraph:

Cheney leaped over the line

[A] candidate occasionally may step over the line separating good taste and reason, making an assertion so outlandish that it defies common decency.

Such was the case last Tuesday, when Vice President Dick Cheney, campaigning in Des Moines, Iowa, told a town hall audience that if Sen. Kerry were elected president, the United States almost certainly would suffer a major terrorist attack.