[William McKinley]

I think Drudge is reporting what he is getting his hands on.

Now who is putting things within his reach, I have no idea.

But the baby story is a good warning, isn't it?

[Common Tator]

I think that the sex stories could be good for Kerry.

Consider the folowing. Kerry has married two very rich woman. Why do rich woman mary poor men? Can you say they want a Boy TOY? I thought you could.

There is a world of difference!!! Bill Clinton Had Girl Toys. John F. Kennedy had Girl Toys. John F. Kerry is a Boy Toy!

Men will vote for a man that has Girl Toys. Men don't vote for men that are Boy Toys.

[Ohioan]

You have tried to warn the others that this should be dropped. But they do not seem to heed.

I am sufficiently fed up with the Administration's Rove approach, that I really do not have a horse in this. But I hate to see Republican Conservatives--even moderate Conservatives--continue to make the same mistake. The concentration on the Monica Lewinski scandal, rather than the wrong-headed policies of the Clinton Administration, cost the Republicans in both 1998 and 2000. It back-fired, as frankly it was obvious that it was going to do.

For one party to carp on the private indiscretions of individuals in the other party, appears to be a cheap shot--along the lines of those hypocrites who continued to stone fallen women, after being admonisthed, "Let he who is innocent, cast the first stone." The politicians of this earth are not a bunch of innocents. There are very few who lead pristine lives. And if you do not want the party to appear to be a bunch of hypocrites, of the type who peek through key-holes to expose others for doing things which they do themselves; you never take up this type of issue.

If you keep out of it, and let the press just feed the gossip mills, the gossips will damage your opponent with some segments of the population. That will take care of itself. But when you (I don't mean you, who have warned against it, but the party faithful, generally) rush in and take a sanctimonious tone, when everyone in the world knows that your interest is partisan advantage, and an excuse to avoid the actual public issues, a reaction sets in, and the advantage from the gossip that you did not join, is wholly lost.

If there was such a thing as Politics 101, for would-be politicians; this would be part of the first semester curriculum. It is very basic, and the fact that so many Republicans do not understand it, is why we keep snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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