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SECOND OPINION
THE FINAL DUHBATE
And the winner is ... the American people, who survived three
stupefying stage shows featuring a repetition of dullard scripts
regurgitated by a first-class prevaricator and a fourth-class orator.
Don't get us wrong, The Federalist understands the critical pragmatic
arguments for electing Mr. Bush, but Gee Wiz, G.W. -- couldn't you
turn loose at least one or two memorable lines in 4.5 hours of
rhetorical wasteland?
Mr. Bush's selection of Dick Cheney notwithstanding, the "Show Me"
State debate left conservatives still looking for some meaningful sign
that he is more than just an honest, affable dupe -- that he really
understands federalism and the need for tax reform, that he will not
fold when it comes to appointing Supreme Court Justices who will
uphold the letter of our Constitution, that he knows anything short of
a clear conservative vision leaves in great peril the liberty bought
with American patriots' blood.
Ronald Reagan won the presidency twice -- paving the way for George
the elder -- not on prerecorded soundbites but by articulating sound
conservative ideas. Additionally, it is oft forgotten that Ronald
Reagan won a landslide victory to become Governor of California -- the
Left Coast breeding ground of socialists and Hollywood -- and then won
re-election, espousing the same conservative principles that would
land him in the White House.
Supporting the elder Bush's campaign in 1988, President Reagan said,
"If we're to finish the job, Reagan's regiments will have to become
the Bush brigades." They did, but GHW Bush turned in the face of a
liberal assault and retreated through his own lines. Now, the minor
Mr. Bush has largely failed to unfurl the conservative banner, hoping
instead, like his father before him, for a truce. But Algoristas will
only tolerate unconditional surrender.
After all the analytical dust has settled from St. Louis, one may
fairly conclude that George Bush's greatest weakness was that he is
unable to articulate the conservative principles of the Republican
platform, while Albert Gore's greatest weakness was that he is able to
articulate the ideology of the Sociocrat platform.
For the record...
Here is how The Federalist's debate coach would have directed Mr. Bush
to answer a few of Mr. Gore's verbatim comments Tuesday night --
rather than staring at him with that "deer in the headlights" mien
which has earned Bush the handle, "Duh-bya."
For openers, as Mr. Bush started to answer the first question, Al Gore
got out of his seat and walked up behind Bush in a choreographed move
to violate Bush's space and throw him off message -- a move that
worked for Clinton in his debate with Bob Dole. Mr. Bush, distracted,
turned and gave Gore "a look." He should have then asked, "Did
somebody push the wrong button?"
Gore: "For the last eight years, I have had the challenge of running
the streamlining program called Reinventing Government. And if there
are any federal employees in this group, you know what that means. The
federal government has been reduced in size by more than 300,000
people, and it's now the smallest number that we have had since -- the
smallest in size since John Kennedy's administration."
Bush: "Albert, two-thirds of the cuts have come from our military
forces, which you have now stretched thin around the world. And,
according to the Congressional Budge Office, people at the bottom of
the pay scale have been pushed out the door while the Clinton-Gore
Administration added 14 new layers of bureaucracy. As a result, for
the first time in history, senior-level and middle-level employees
outnumber lower level employees -- a model bureaucracy."
Gore: "For the last eight years, I've been on the National Security
Council. And last week I broke off -- I suspended campaigning for two
days or parts of two days to go back and participate in the meetings
that charted the president's [Middle East summit strategy]." Bush:
"So, he sacrificed 'parts of two days' from his political campaign
because the Clinton-Gore foreign policy in the region is about to turn
the deserts of the Middle East into molten glass."
Gore: "You know, we won that conflict in Kosovo without losing a
single human life in combat, a single American life in combat."
Bush: "That conflict in Kosovo is not 'won,' but merely contained.
Most of those Muslim refugees will never be able to return to the
region."
Gore: "When I graduated from college, there were plenty of fancy ways
to get out of going [to Vietnam] and being a part of that."
Bush: "Apparently there were some 'fancy ways' to get special
permission to come home seven months early and flunk out of divinity
school."
Gore: "None of my proposals would have any effect on hunters or
sportsmen or people who use rifles."
Bush: "The Second Amendment does not mention 'hunters and sportsmen.'
Our Founders did mention the fact that a free people must possess the
means to defend themselves against tyranny. George Washington said, 'A
free people ought to be armed.' Even Democrat Vice President Hubert
Humphrey, a man who served in an era Mr. Gore longs to return to,
said, 'The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee
against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny
which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved
to be always possible'."
Gore: "Now, under my plan, we will balance the budget every year. I'm
not just saying this. I'm not just talking."
Bush: "Gore's total spending in the first five years of his
administration comes to $2.2 trillion, three times my $712 billion in
spending, and Gore's plan will create $800 billion in deficit
spending. The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
reports that Gore's plan would "produce the largest spending increases
since LBJ and the Great Society. And, while we are on the subject of
deficits, why don' we talk about our nation's 'moral deficit'."
Gore: "Instead of high unemployment [before Clinton-Gore] we now have
very low unemployment nationally."
Bush: "The New York Times, not a member of the Vast Right-Wing
Conspiracy, reported last week, 'Economists and business executives
say, much of what happened to the economy in the 1990s had little to
do with Washington and was part of a process that began before Mr.
Clinton and Mr. Gore took office'."
Gore: "He proposes spending more money for a tax cut just for the
wealthiest one percent than all of the new money than he budgets for
education, health care, and national defense combined."
Bush: "Mr. Gore repeated that lie in the first and second debates. It
is still a lie."
Gore: "I'm for a massive reform of the estate tax or the death tax."
Bush: "My opponent only wants reform for the 'right people,' and even
then, only if they exhibit the right behavior."
Gore: "If you want somebody who will fight for you and who will fight
to have middle class tax cuts, then I am your man. I want to be."
Bush: "Shortly after taking office, Al Gore cast the tie-breaking vote
on the largest tax increase in U.S. history, including $115 billion in
higher personal income taxes, $31 billion in higher gasoline taxes,
$25 billion in higher taxes on Social Security benefits, and $29
billion in more Medicare taxes."
Gore: "I think that the special interests have too much power, and we
need to give our democracy back to the American people."
Bush: "According to the Los Angeles Times, my opponent has collected
more campaign donations from lobbyists than any other presidential
candidate. Even the Boston Globe reports that many of Gore's friends,
former aides, and senior campaign advisers work as lobbyists and
strategists for corporate clients who often get access to the White
House and Gore's office."
Gore: "Here are some promises that I'll make to you now. I will
balance the budget every year. I will pay down the debt every year."
Bush: "Promises, Mr. Vice President? Your budget will increase the
U.S. gross debt to $40 trillion by 2050 as a result of the Social
Security IOUs you would leave in that unfunded 'trust'."
Gore: "Parents now feel like you have to compete with the mass culture
in order to raise your kids with the values that you want them to
have. ... I'll tell you this: I want to do something about this...I
will do something to help you raise your kids without that garbage."
Bush: "Did I mention the 'moral deficit' that Clinton-Gore left for
parents and their children to clean up? Government ought to stand on
the side of parents for a change. The popular culture often undermines
the values parents are trying to teach their children -- and that's
especially true for the television, music and movie industries from
whom Mr. Gore has taken $13.6 million in campaign contributions."
Closing remarks:
Gore: "I'd like to tell you something about me. I keep my word. I have
kept the faith.
I've kept the faith with my country. ... I have kept the faith with
our country. Nine times I have raised my hand to take an oath to the
Constitution, and I have never violated that oath. I have not spent
the last quarter century in pursuit of personal wealth."
Bush: "Speaking of telling the truth, I never heard my opponent's
answer to his colleague Bill Bradley's question, 'Why should we
believe you will tell the truth as President if you don't tell the
truth as a candidate?' Al Gore promised that Medicare would be
reformed, and that Social Security would be reformed. He promised a
middle class tax cut in 1992. It didn't happen. Instead, my opponent
has 'spent the last quarter century in pursuit of' political power.
Should I be fortunate enough to become your president, when I put my
hand on the Bible, I will swear to not only uphold the laws of the
land, but I will also swear to uphold the honor and the dignity the
office to which I have been elected, so help me God."
In conclusion, The Federalist Editorial Board would like nothing more
than for the next administration to be so adept at canonizing
constitutional policy positions that the Brief and Digest would be
obsolete. Unfortunately, based on the plethora of opportunities Mr.
Bush missed to contrast conservative positions with Gore's advocacy of
an ever-larger central government, our mission and future will be
secure if (and long after) Mr. Bush is elected.
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BODY POLITIC
>From the Bush campaign journal...
Observation Points:
"Gore was obnoxious, overbearing and off-putting." --William Kristol
++ "The vice president was trying so hard to project strength that he
managed to be quarrelsome, unctuous, and condescending--all at the
same time." --Byron York ++ "For politically engaged conservatives,
in particular, watching the third and mercifully final debate was
excruciating; and they are likely to be tougher on Bush than swing
voters will as a result." --Ramesh Ponnuru ++ "Why was Bush so
restrained?" --John LeBoutillier ++ "Oddly, Bush's...political
instincts -- exemplified by his constant attempt to stress how he
wanted to have Democrats on his bipartisan team -- are to avoid fights
rather than to win them." --John O'Sullivan ++ "...[A]fter eight
years of a confessional Clintonism that feels our pain and takes all
too many other liberties, some of us long for a solid, sensible
executive, the duller the better." --Paul Greenberg ++ "How can the
public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not
until the right is prepared to lose on principles will we ever hope to
win this culture war on which the survival of our nation depends."
--Don Feder
>From Amerika2000 -- The "Virtual Morality" Campaign...
It is of interest, not that we put much credence in political polls,
that two reputable pollsters have George Bush ahead of Albert Gore in
Gore's reputed home state -- Tennessee. The good news is the last
presidential aspirant to lose his home state was George McGovern --
whose populist rhetoric Gore is emulating. The bad news is the last
presidential candidate to lose his home state but win the presidency
was James K. Polk from -- Tennessee.
Expressing something less than confidence in the Gore-Lieberman
campaign, Joseph Lieberman announced he wouldn't drop his dual
candidacy to retain his seat in the Senate. "If Gore were ahead in the
polls, it might be a different story," said John Lapinski, a political
science professor at Yale University. "Come January, Lieberman wants a
job."
AlGoreisms: Newsweek asked Al Gore if it would bother him should an
atheist become president. Gore responded, "No, it would not. ... I
believe that someone can have...a true spirit of tolerance without
affirming a particular and specialized belief in God. Yes, I do." And
if I'm elected....
Observation Points:
"Gore won't apply the Joe Camel standard to the cultural polluters for
a simple reason -- the Democratic Party and entertainment industry are
partners in deconstructing America." --Don Feder ++ "If Al Gore
can't overcome George W. Bush's mid-October surge, the vice
president's campaign aides already have a ready explanation for his
defeat. It's two words: Bill Clinton. Through millions of dollars in
polling, Gore's camp has concluded that many voters have a deep,
impenetrable, almost irrational hatred of the president." --Ron
Brownstein in the Los Angeles Times ++ "We need to get out an all
points bulletin to find Joe Lieberman. Lieberman no longer exists,
from nudging Hollywood, to re-interpreting Jewish law regarding
intermarriage, and now reaching out to the big F(arrakhan). What's
next? A warm hug for Saddam Hussein? A visit to the grave of the Pol
Pot to apologize? An endorsement of Scream IV? A fund-raiser with
Eminem? A joke about finding Moses in his room and asking, 'What you
just show up but you don't call?' Gore and Lieberman: When anything
but the truth will do." --Republican National Committee Co-Chairman
Patricia Harrison ++ "Don't vote for anyone who doesn't strongly
have a pro-life position." --Democrat Ray Flynn, previously Clinton's
ambassador to the Vatican and former mayor of Boston, now head of the
Catholic Alliance, urging his fellow Catholics not to vote for Gore.
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DEZINFORMATSIA
"I don't actually think Gore has told any whoppers at all. They are
the minorest kind of factual, teeny-weeny exaggerations, if that."
--NPR's Nina Totenberg on the Vice Prevaricator. ++ "I mean, he is
under the heat of a huge national audience. He maybe exaggerated,
maybe a slip of the tongue. Are those things reason enough to keep him
out of the White House?" --NBC's Matt Lauer {} The New York Times has
barred its writers from using the phrase "voodoo economics" because
practitioners of voodoo have complained that they're offended. {}
Last month, CNN Clintonista Bill Press had a big laugh about George
Bush referring to "soldiers" rather than "sailors" on an aircraft
carrier. He did not laugh this week when Mr. Clinton, at the Pier 12
memorial in Norfolk, paid homage to the 17 "soldiers" who died aboard
USS Cole.
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SOCIOCRATS
Clintonese: "I thank [Mr. Gore] for being the best partner and friend,
advisor and prodder any President could ever have." --Mr. Clinton
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VILLAGE IDIOTS
This week's "Village Ignorati" Award goes to Ms. Angela Perez
Baraquio, who, upon her Miss America crowning, bestowed a little
sagacity on her fans. For openers, she said, "I'm part of this legacy!
I'm part of the American dream!" (Didn't former Miss America -- and
Clinton dalliancee -- Elizabeth Ward Gracen, say something like that?)
Baraquio continued, "I never thought I could walk around in a
swimsuit. I thought it was degrading. When I won the swimsuit
preliminary I thought it was a joke." (News flash, Ms. Baraquio: It
still is!) Then she engaged her "acumen afterburner," declaring her
support for Albert Gore because, like Gore, she is opposed to
vouchers. "My parents put us through Catholic school, and they didn't
need vouchers, and there were 10 of us." (Inductive and deductive
logic in action!) She then informed us, "My parents had to have a pest
control business. They had 10 children. ... I always felt like a
middle child, even though I was the eighth." (Isn't 8 between 1 and
10?) Now Ms. Baraquio is off on her mission to promote "character
education" in your neighborhood! {} From the "Village Academic
Curriculum" File: A tenured professor, from the sociology department
at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, resigned under protest
because his department would not let him conduct a course on
"Political Correctness." Professor Richard Zeller was chastised by the
director of BGSU's women's studies department, Ms. Kathleen Dixon, who
said, "We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." **We
suggest you read her words several times to appreciate their full
implication!
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SHORT CUTS
"Tonight Vice President Gore officially opened his campaign ... for
Governor of Texas." --RNC Co-Chair Pat Harrison ++ "Al Gore
apologized for doing so much sighing during his [first presidential
debate with George W. Bush]. Look at the bright side--it's one of the
few indications we've gotten...that he actually breathes." --Daily
Scoop ++ Editor's Comment: President Bush has told Clinton to cease
making jokes about his boy. Bush should know by now that upon taking
his oath of office, Clinton became the "Comedian-in-Chief."
Night Lines:
Leno.... Clinton is in Egypt working on a cease-fire for the Middle
East. We call it a cease-fire; they call it -- reloading! .... The
final debate for Bush and Gore was on Tuesday. They both had a
gentleman's agreement for this one -- If Bush forgot an important
fact; Gore made one up for him. .... The stock market took a hit
yesterday. Revlon went way down. That was due to the second debate
where Al Gore didn't wear so much makeup, Revlon lost a lot of
business with him. .... Our world is backwards. Al Gore is working
on his makeup and Miss America contestants are working on their
speeches for world peace. .... Our country has come a long way: first
we had George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie. Then we had Bill
Clinton, who couldn't tell the truth. And now we have Al Gore, who
can't tell the difference... .... We're going to have a subway
series! Don't get that confused with the debates -- the sub-par
series! Let's get started, I want to finish the monologue before Al
Gore interrupts me. .... Gore kept talking about how Bush favors
"the wealthiest 1%." Know what? I think both of these guys call the
wealthy 1% their daddy!
Letterman.... Tuesday is the final Presidential Debate. Everyone is
wondering which Al Gore will show up. In the first debate we saw the
"overbearing Gore" in the second one we saw the "passive Gore" and on
Tuesday night we'll see the "dazed and disoriented Gore"! .... If Al
Gore gets elected he says he'll make it a priority to come up with a
personality within the first one hundred days in office! .... Al
Gore has been different in every debate. He has a split personality.
He turns on his personality and everyone splits! George W. Bush was
looking confident. He was so confident that he kissed Tipper! ....
In the other two debates Gore was too passive or too aggressive.
Tonight he was just right, they finally gave him the right dose of
medication. .... After the debate, 10 percent of the people went from
undecided to indifferent.
George Bush made appeared on Letterman Thursday night with his own top
list of changes he will make in the White House: To save taxpayer
dollars, calls to winning sports teams will be made collect. New rule
at Cabinet meetings: You can't talk until you ride the mechanical
bull. Goodbye, boring presidential radio address; Hello, "Dick Cheney
spins the hits of the '80s, '90s and today." Make sure the White House
library has lots of books with big print and pictures. Just for fun,
issue an executive order commanding my brother, Jeb, to wash my car.
First day in office, my mother's face goes up on Mount Rushmore.
Looking into hiring a security guard for our nuclear secrets. Will not
get sick on Japanese leaders like other President Bushes I know. Give
Oval Office one heck of a scrubbing. Tax relief for all Americans
except smart-aleck talk show hosts.
Hamilton.... Bill Clinton and Hillary observed their 25th wedding
anniversary...alone together in Chappaqua, [N.Y.]. They're pretty set
in their ways. Out of habit, they charged each other $25,000 to sit
down and have dinner. .... Wrestling star the Rock said that George
W. Bush and Al Gore still have not responded to his invitation to
appear on "Smackdown." It's a pity. Millions of Americans would pay
$24.95 just to watch George W. Bush wrestle with the English language
while Al Gore grapples with the truth.
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