[guitfiddlist]

He said the nation needs leadership and ideas, and friends are urging him to seek the Democratic nomination again.

And dusting off an old campaign retort, former Vice President Mondale responded with "Oh yeah, sonny boy? Well, where's the soy-based, hydrogenated beef-product mush?"

[SamAdams76]

Hart's biggest mistake was running for president in 1984 instead of 1992. Imagine, we could have had a mud-wrestling match between Donna Rice and Gennifer Flowers.

[ncpastor]

What ever happened to "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow?" All we're seeing lately is retreads from the D.Rats. Maybe yesterday is all they have left.

[jmaroneps37]

Why not? Hart-pence is only 87.

[RGSpincich]

I like his women better than Clinton's.

[Doctor Stochastic]

As co-author of the Patriot Act, he's already got a head start.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Go ahead, Gary, make our day!

[DonQ]

The Gary Hart campaign crashed and burned because of the Donna Rice business ... which was engineered by a rightwing Republican. The South Florida campaign for Hart made the mistake of hiring George Depontis as its manager. I know George from highschool; he's got lots of political savvy - but he is enthusiastically a bircher Republican. Depontis introduced Hart to Rice.

The supposed photo of Rice in Hart's lap aboard a yacht was staged, on the pier not on the water. Hart was sitting down when Rice asked if she could have a picture with him, as is very common with Senators and Presidential candidates, ... and then she plopped herself in his lap and a buddy snapped the picture, all in a few seconds.

For the supposed "affair", she enticed two Miami Herald reporters to follow her around Washington, claiming she could prove that Hart was carrying on an affair with her (doesn't sound like she was much of a friend to Hart even then). Instead of riding in the same car with them, she had a taxi follow her directions while the Miami reporters were tailing her. She went into a door which was identified as Hart's ... and the reporters never saw her come back out although they waited until past dawn. She claimed to have spent the night. But the fact is that she had the cab drop her in the alleyway at Hart's kitchen door, having called Hart to tell him she was delivering money for his campaign (always something that will get you access to the candidate). Hart let her in through the backdoor and called a cab for her and showed her out shortly thereafter from the front door. No sex. But the reporters, being unfamiliar with DC, were not aware that they were watching the backdoor all night long.

A clever trick to use newspaper reporters to blow up a candidacy.

[Bubba_Leroy]

The demonRATs should rename their party the G.O.P. (the Geriatric Old Party).

[dirtboy]

He campaigned again for the 1988 nomination but withdrew after reporters spotted him at a Washington town house with model Donna Rice, then 29.

However, since Clinton subsequently did such a stellar job defining deviancy downward, Hart's former dalliances should no longer be an impediment.

[Pompah]

Oh Geez. We have got to be close to the bottom of that democrat barrel. Can you just see it.:
HART / CLINTON 2004' Yeh Baby. Bring Um On.!!

[paddles]

Hartpence: the guy who fudged his age to become the world's oldest Ensign in the Naval Reserve as a Senator.

No doubt to maintain his viability within the system.