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"DESPERATE ACTS OF EGO"
Strange that so many Repugnants are running for president especially since the polls show the Malboro Man and Barbie Dole so far out in front. Do they know something we don't?
One
thing for certain, the media is really gentle in their interviews with
them. Perhaps reporters are all worn out from last year.
What a hoot! A run for the White House in 2000, by a stable full of ten white elephants and one black, promises all the grace of a bag full of hyenas. Remember how the GOPpers are always screaming about character. Well here is a really diverse bunch of characters!
According to polls, running out of the money is Rep. John Kasich. He appears to be having a hard time getting his campaign financed. We don't see that he has much to offer except just another "pretty face" since the foot-in-mouth prize has been won already.
Then there's Alan Keyes who is making still another attempt. So far, he has not sought any great amount of press coverage. This should change as the primary heats up or he finds a new issue.
Gary Bauer is certainly the really, really right-religious-wing choice. It's hard to believe that there can be anyone holier but time will tell. Unless he gains in the polls, the press won't pick over the bones of his past very carefully because they are afraid they wouldn't understand what they might find.
In competition for the god group is former Veep and world class speller, Dan Quayle. He claims to be the only one in the field that is experienced in foreign policy. Well, that sure explains a lot. We wondered why former Prez Bush sent him to all those foreign funerals.
Steve Forbes is unique in this pack of wannabes since he is not even trying to raise money to finance his campaign. He's using his own millions just as he did last time.
He is also a good example of how the media treats candidates differently. At the very least, he is no ball of fire as a speaker, yet the usual critical press never mentioned it. They are too busy counting his money and drooling.
We must not forget Lamar! Lamar Alexander never stopped running after the last presidential election but he HAS changed his shirt. One of the most seminal phrases we've heard said about him is "this country is not ready for a president named Lamar."
Then there is perennial candidate Sen. Bob Smith of New Hampshire. A fine example of how "hope springs eternal in the human breast."
Gaining ground is
Sen. John McCain,
who only recently declared his candidacy by leaping aboard the war train.
He has made Kosovo his personal issue by going over and inspecting what
is going on so he can come back and tell everyone that HIS WAR is not being
handled correctly and what he would have done if...
The scrappy, "America first and the hell with everyone else," Pat Buchanan, is back again for the Y2K presidential sweepstakes. Even all the god candidates put together cannot equal his venom for, and opposition to women's reproductive choice.
Just behind the leader is Elizabeth Dole, who has also staked her claim to a piece of the Kosovian war. She spent some highly photographed time among the refugees and is praised for being one of the few in this group of GOPpers who has taken a firm stand on this issue.
We are told, however, that she would do better if she'd dump Viagra Bob. Seems that on the campaign trail, most who come to hear her want "personal information" rather than to hear her political views.
Leader-of-the-pack is the Texas (yee haw) Malboro Man who took days before he could find out from his army of daddy's advisors where he stood on the Kosovo war. Prince George is being groomed incessantly to fill the shoes of Senior Bush, but so far he appears to be little more than an empty head being filled with his advisor's positions.
Once the reporters get started on him, there should be some interesting reading. If you checked out the second page of the article by Tapper that we cited in our last article, you have read about more of his "youthful indiscretions."
We find it amusing, after all the screaming by the Repugnats about the Clinton penis, that there are pictorial proofs of the Shrub presidential wannabe in the buff. Seems he used to get smashed and/or stoned, and then do a Gypsy Rose Lee. That took character?!?
It gets much funnier. You all remember Bill Bennett, don't you? Not Bob -- he's President Clinton's lawyer. Bill is the "oh so pure, virtuous and judgmental" author of "The Book of Virtues."
After telling us so often that character counts, and condemning everything Clinton did as a youth, Bill stands beside G.W. and declares that he is exonerated. Bill tells us that what the Shrub did in his past must NOT be considered. Now, that's convenient, ain't it?
There may be more interesting character flaws that will emerge in time. Coming revelations may be just what the trailing pack of elephants are counting on. As people of great character they know that first you knock off the leader. Then you scratch and claw at those around you to get to the top. Virtue, character, family values -- we're all choked up in anticipation!
If you think we've been hard on these candidates, cast a glance at a hatchet job by a real professional. Read Maureen Dowd's current column in the N.Y. Times ("Cold, Cold Hearth.") She is proof incarnate that disrespecting any woman who stands up for women's rights pays off big time. The establishment loves and "prizes" Maureen for her frequent, acerbic contributions to their backlash.
1999-017
Copyright 1999 Renee T. Louise and Ruth M. Sprague, Ph.D. These articles may be republished for noncommercial use only, provided that they are copied intact, and that this copyright notice is attached. Address all queries to: twanda@together.net.
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