Posted on 08/26/2005 11:43:47 AM PDT by RWR8189
BILL Weld, the former Massachusetts governor who now wants to succeed Gov. George Pataki in Albany, enjoys both chess and pool. Both - obviously - are tactical games. Chess calls for seeing the board several moves ahead and pinning down an opponent. Pool requires execution and a vision of where to leave the cue ball to set up the next several shots.
Such maneuvering has long served Mr. Weld well in another game he enjoys - politics. Though he might appear to be a long shot in New York, his latest move is exactly the sort of attention-grabbing challenge he relishes. "I love the five-carom shot in pool," he told The Boston Globe in 1996.
Want an example of flawless execution? In 1988 Mr. Weld quit as head of the Justice Department's criminal division to protest what he considered to be ethical conflicts by Attorney General Ed Meese. Conveniently, his departure also gave him a golden glow as a Republican candidate for governor in liberal Massachusetts two years later. As they say around the pool table, it was a "nice leave."
I first encountered Bill Weld in 1991, when I took a job writing speeches for him. A summa cum laude classics major from Harvard, Mr. Weld was as exacting as any professor. After a sloppy typographical error in a speech, he sent me a note that read, simply, "of it = its not it's." When I wrote that the welfare system had "devolved" into a social disaster, he marked up the text with an off-the-cuff etymology. And when he joked at a staff meeting about the "maw" of the speechwriters, I sent him the William Blake quotation; "Rome and Greece swept Art into their maw and destroyed it." He shot back, "If you think I wasn't thinking of Blake,
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The Rino Weld is a Trinationalist CFR goon who should never be in a position of power again.
But you're comfortable putting Spitzer in power?
TWO non-conservatives will be running in NY State.
Conservatives need not apply !!
Weld was good with getting Mass. back on solid financial footing as I recall. The state was heading down the toilet.
Social issues are a different issue....
It still is heading down the toilet, in more ways than one.
Kind of true, he got us out of junk bond status, although maybe anyone after Dukakis would have done a good job. He also signed off on the Big Dig...
He also began funding for the Governor's Council on Gay Youths, the group that brought us GLSEN and Gay Days. Google Weld and Helms (as in Senator Jesse Helms) for interesting reading...
Weld, Argio, Swifty, the the root of many of our problems, only this state could have produced these three dumb asses.
No thanks. We need new blood in the GOP, not just another RINO retread.
I don't know Spitzer, but I do know Weld. Have met him. He is a threat to the nation.
Please...weldo...youve done enough to.. I mean for this country. Go away.
What is it about New York that attract so many political carpetbaggers anyway?
Oh yeah! Now that Argio is no longer the US ambassador to Canada and is back in MA, I dare him to run for public office again, here.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Frank Sargeant was also Republican. I think Ed King was a Dem but he was closest to a real Republican...
So was was Volpe...
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