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Takes One to Know One
“Bill Clinton was on Larry King last night. He is mad at George
Stephanopoulos, he is mad at Kenneth Starr, and he is mad at Dick Morris.
About Morris, Clinton said, ‘A lot of the things that he has said he knows
downright aren't true and I feel bad for him, because I think you pay a
terrible political price when you do that over and over and over again.’ And
who would know better?”
- Rich Galen, “Mullings,” 12/24/99
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The Evils of E-Voting
“Motor-voter sent registrations soaring, but turnout continued to drop. In
the last congressional election, only 36 percent of eligible voters cast a
ballot, the lowest level in 56 years. Perhaps vote by mail or Internet
voting will reverse that trend. Doubtless it is easier to cast a ballot when
all you have to do is lick a stamp or click a mouse. But why exactly are we
so desperate for the ballots of people who won’t vote unless voting is made
utterly effortless? Is democratic self-rule enhanced by pandering to people
who can’t be bothered to get off the couch and go to a polling place once a
year? ... It’s curious that those who believe in high voter turnout is the
sine qua non of civic health never propose paying people to vote. Offer $10
to every citizen who shows up on Election Day, and nonvoters would come out
in droves. Better still, slap a fine on anyone who fails to vote. That,
would send turnout soaring, too. Of course bribing voters with cash would
demean elections. Making the vote compulsory would be an affront to our
traditions. But is it any less demeaning to keep scrounging for ways to
wheedle votes out of people who couldn’t care less about elections?"
- Columnist Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe
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The “Substance” Candidate
“Few presidential candidates have been as relentlessly substantive as (Steve)
Forbes, who’s prepared to tell you what he thinks on everything from Fed
policy to Internet porn filters.”
- Columnist Gerald F. Seib, Wall Street Journal, 12/22/99
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The “Media Darling” Candidate
“The establishment press has successfully focused our attention on the
$57,186,658 Texas Governor George W. Bush raised in the first nine months of
1999. ... But the establishment press has worked hard to ignore the $60
million that American - and some foreign - corporations have effectively
contributed to Arizona Senator John McCain’s campaign. ... Why the silence?
Because the sources of these campaign contributions are the major news media
corporations themselves. McCain has betrayed conservative principles and a
united conservative movement and Republican Party by supporting restrictions
on grassroots political activity that was designed by the Senate’s perhaps
most left-wing senator - Russell Feingold. In return, McCain has received
millions of dollars of free advertising for his campaign in the form of
flattering news articles, editorials, and time on national television.
“...A minute of advertising on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ costs $80,000.
The network has given John McCain many ‘free’ minutes to talk about campaign
finance reform. A quarter-page ad on the op-ed page of the New York Times
costs $28,170. ... Ann Coulter of George magazine has calculated that
McCain’s positive press in the editorial pages of the Times was worth $2.2
million this year. In 1999 alone, McCain has appeared on ‘Face the Nation’
five times, ‘Meet the Press’ six times, and ‘This Week’ six times. A
one-minute ad on ‘Meet the Press’ costs $220,000. Average ten minutes per
show and NBC has given McCain $13.2 million dollars in free advertising.
Every minute of pro-campaign finance reform puff pieces on ‘NBC News’ is
worth $170,000. In the last two years, McCain’s position on campaign finance
reform was highlighted in 2,948 articles (including 659 editorials) in major
newspapers. To buy this amount of space would cost between $8.4 million and
$19.4 million.”
- Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, American Spectator,
December 1999/January 2000
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We Need A Do-LESS GOP Congress
“During the past session of Congress, lawmakers passed 13 annual spending
bills for fiscal 2000 at a cost of $617 billion - a 7 percent increase from
the year previous. Discretionary spending is now $70 billion higher than it
was in fiscal 1995, when Democrats last controlled Congress. ... Yes, the GOP
Congress was instrumental in balancing the books after three decades of
Democrat largess. And, yes, some Republicans will argue that spending would
be a lot worse if the Democrats were back in control - although ‘we failed,
but they’d be worse’ is hardly an inspiring rallying cry.”
- Las Vegas Review Journal editorial, 12/22/99
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