You remember Gary Bauer, don’t you? He ran a religious right powerhouse (the Family Research Council) in the ’90s, he allegedly ran as a Republican for president in 2000, and he’s generally held himself out as a paragon for all that is moral and virtuous in society.
But showing once more the strides Bush has made in “changing the tone” in politics, Bauer pulled a Cheney this week.
Guess who’s the latest victim of Cheney Potty Mouth Syndrome? Hard as it may be to believe, it’s none other than the man formerly known as Mr. Family Values, one-time presidential candidate Gary Bauer.
A trusted [Roll Call] contributor saw Bauer walking down 33rd Street, outside Madison Square Garden, passing through a throng of rowdy protesters. The cops pushed the protesters back as Bauer passed by. But one particularly unruly agitator managed to get right in Bauer’s face, yelling at the conservative Christian activist, and calling him “a fascist.”
Well, that just did it. Bauer, without skipping a beat, popped off the now commonly procured and deployed F Bomb.
“F— you,” Bauer said as he kept walking.
A spokeswoman for Bauer, head of American Values, said that Bauer would not comment on what he said to the protester.
Republicans sure do have some affinity for that word, don’t they?