Sitting nervously before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Investigations, with husband Lucio at her side, Carrie Ruiz testified last week how her daughter was murdered. As she spoke, she squeezed a framed portrait photo of 17-year-old Felicia.
Truth, it is said, is the first casualty of war…and politics. In this year’s midterm elections, war and politics are doubleteaming truth and it doesn’t stand a chance.
In politics, party loyalty is more important than integrity, which explains why North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole is on the campaign trail Wednesday in Montanadefending scandal-ridden Republican Sen. Conrad Burns, ignoring the Senator’s latest slurs against immigrants and claiming that voting him out of office would be a “disaster.”
Politics, it is said, is a dirty business and in this midterm election year, both political parties find themselves up to their necks in dirt.