Originally Posted by daswig

And Kerry, by winking at the actions of his "overzealous, asshole supporters" and by failing to do anything to correct their illegal conduct, assumes liability for their actions. That's a BASIC tenet of tort and agency law.

Bush doesn't want to be heckled. At least his campaign has the balls to make hecklers lie and violate the law in order to heckle him. Kerry, on the other hand, simply relies on his Brownshirt/Komsomol cadre to beat the opposition into submission.