Posted on 02/25/2005 10:34:21 AM PST by FlyLow
It wasn't the Pentagon Papers, but give The New York Times and reporter David D. Kirkpatrick credit for bamboozling sad-sack author Doug Wead (The Raising of a President) into playing tapes he secretly recorded with then-Texas governor George W. Bush before his 2000 presidential election. Kirkpatrick's Feb. 20 front-pager didn't offer much juicy material, although the inference that Bush "tried" marijuana has a lot of liberals clucking, but some of the anecdotes are noteworthy in historical footnote sort of way.
Steve Forbes won't be too happy, one imagines, with Bush's supposedly private conversations with Wead, an adviser to the President's father. Calling Forbes "too preppy" and "mean spirited" to win over Evangelical voters, Bush said, in reference to the GOP primaries five years ago, "Steve Forbes is going to hear this message from me. I will do nothing for him if he does to me what he did to Dole [in 1996]. Period. There is going to be a consequence. He is not dealing with the average, you, 'Oh gosh, let's all get together after it's over.' I will promise you, I will not help him. I don't care. And he further boasted, "[Forbes] can forget Texas. And he can forget Florida [where his brother was governor]. And I will sit on my hands."
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Steve Forbes, on Fox last night, wasn't too upset. Besides, he's a big boy and been around politics a while.
The "secret" tapes blew up in their collective Leftist faces, and another Judas sells his soul to the devil. ;)
He is also a pragmatist. He said he would only be mad a President Bush if he dropped the ball on Tax reform.
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