Updating a previous item on the Bush-Cheney campaign requiring a signed pledge of loyalty to George W. Bush before allowing voters to attend a Dick Cheney campaign event…

Drudge is finally running a piece on this now that it’s being suggested that “some Democrats” were required to sign loyalty oaths.

Am I just a pinko, commie, terrorist Freedom Hater if I think that shouldn’t really make any damn difference…here in America?! The story doesn’t exactly inform us how campaign officials knew who were Democrats and who weren’t, and even goes on to say that “Some Democrats who are Bush supporters were welcomed without signing anything.”

The story also does not explain how the Bush campaign would know which Democrats were Bush supporters and which weren’t.

But read on…

PLEASE, is there any conservative out there who can explain to me how this is what you are looking for in a “conservative” nominee for President of the United States (of America!)??

Once again…here is what the “pledge” says. The one you must sign to see your Vice-President speak during a Presidential Campaign:

Dan Foley, of the Bush Campaign, explains…

Oh, well that’s a relief!

Anyway, the story is now linked on Drudge, so it should be reported by the Mainstream Media shortly. As long as it hasn’t been taken it down by Monday.

UPDATE: A follow-up piece from the Albuquerque Journal would seem to defy the “some Democrats” report which claimed that it was just people who called from “a line that self-identified as ACT, America Coming Together, an activist group that supports Kerry.”

As well, it quotes a Republican National Committee spokesperson, Yier Shi, explaining the policy for restricting the event — at a public school gymnasium! — only to the loyal ones:

Got that distinction?

This is a campaign in big — very big — trouble.