[exodus]

To: redrock
Trent Lott personifies my dilemma on this issue. There is no one I would less like to see as Senate Majority Leader. Except Tom Daschle. In the real world, those are my choices. I don't like that my alternative to Tom Daschle is Trent Lott. I think Trent Lott is a worthless, spineless, blow-dried empty suit, who -- if the Republicans do re-take the Senate -- will let Tom Daschle run the place anyway, just as he did before Jeffords switched sides.

I cannot express enough contempt for Trent Lott in this family forum. However, does that mean I would rather have Tom Daschle instead, just for spite? I had my bout with spite.

I had it in 1992, and my reward was eight years of William Jefferson Clinton. Lots of us showed ol' man Bush just what we thought about 'read my lips.' Sumbitch can't keep a promise, we'll show him, we'll vote for Ross Perot.

Been there, done that, got the stained dress.
Never again.
# 18 by Nick Danger
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So that's your answer, Nick Danger?
Give up your principles?

Bush Sr. barely lost, so Clinton is your fault?
Not so. Clinton won because Bush lied.

The Republican Party got the message.
Because of that message, we had the "Contract with America,"
and controlled both houses of Congress.

Then Newt Gingrich and his followers betrayed that Contract,
trying to avoid the titles of "mean-spirited" and "hateful."
They even allowed Clinton free rein in his treasonous activities.

Remember the projections that the Republicans
would gain about 20 seats in the Senate?
Instead, they lost their majority.
Why?

It wasn't because of third party opposition.
They lost because the Republicans
were as dis-honest as their Democratic opponents,
and thus lost the faith of their people.
They lied.

Why did our current President Bush win?
It wasn't because of his high qualifications.
Bush barely won,
because of what could be called "protest votes" against Clinton.

Gore lost because of his and Clinton's well-publicized lies.
Like the first Bush, his dishonesty cost him the Presidency.

[Nick Danger]

Bush Sr. barely lost, so Clinton is your fault? Not so. Clinton won because Bush lied.

The Republican Party got the message. Because of that message, we had the "Contract with America," and controlled both houses of Congress.

Thank you for reminding me of that. When I was agonizing over whether to really vote for Perot, the thing I kept coming back to was that "We, the People" could not fail to turn out a politician who had made that explicit a promise, and then broken it. The message we would be sending to other politicians was that we didn't care if they said one thing and did another, and I saw that as a long-term cancerous thing that we just couldn't afford to do. So in the end, I did vote for Perot. I did not imagine that Perot would win, but I did want to see Bush lose, as a message to other politicians that people really do remember your promises and will take it out on you if you break them.

Was eight years of Clinton worth that? I had never thought so, but your note makes me think that maybe some good did come of it after all.