That would be an excellent question for FReeper protest signs too.
I'm in the process of making up a list of questions that I think Jeb ought to ask "The Great Pretender Aw-Shucks McMumble", who like Algore reinvents himself to be whatever he thinks will fly with the voters.
I think it would be fun to rewrite the words to the song, "The Great Pretender" and sing it at our McBride protest FReeps.
Come on gang! Let's have some suggestions for lyrics!
Here are the first three questions I've come up with:
Questions for Jeb to ask "Aw Shucks McMumble" - the Down-Home Pretender who spent last Friday [10-18-02] with Bill "it all depends on what the meaning of "is" is" Clinton:
[1] Why are you attempting to mislead people about where you live and trying to hide the fact that you are by far the wealthiest candidate?
Washington Post FACTS: ". . . . He and his wife, a retired bank executive, used to file joint tax returns. Shortly before announcing his bid for governor, they switched to separate returns. As a result, McBride could claim the smallest net worth of any major candidate -- when for all practical purposes he is by far the richest.
McBride lives in a spacious house on 30 lakeside acres outside Tampa, in an area in which a comparable home recently listed for just under $1 million. But in a 1999 speech, McBride said, "I live in a poor area of my state. The only time many of my neighbors see a lawyer is when the lawyer is representing the mobile home park owner evicting them." . . . ."
[2] Who do you think will be fooled when you, who until recently was a managing partner of one of America's largest law corporations, pretend that you don't understand big words and phrases? The Washington Post says that in your stump speeches around Florida, you pretend to be flummoxed by the expression "statistical margin of error." What a low opinion you must have of the voters to think they would be dumb enough to fall for that.
Washington Post: "Though he is the retired managing partner of one of America's largest law firms -- with a personal specialty in banking law -- he pretends in stump speeches to be flummoxed by the expression "statistical margin of error."
Touting the polls that show him within a few percentage points of Bush, the candidate tells audiences, "We're within what they call the, uh -- I don't know all the lingo -- the, uh, sta-tis-ti-cal margin of, um -- "
McBride looks around the room, brow furrowed.
"Error," someone says.
"Error!" McBride repeats, his face brightening. "Which means it's real close."
[3] You used to be a corporate big-wig. But now that you you've decided to run for governor, you've morphed into this carefully cultivated "aw-shucks, I don't understand them big words, moseyin' man of the people" image. The Washington Post describes this new "aw-shucks aura" of yours as being "essential to" your "canny strategy". Who do you hope to fool with this latest reinvention of yourself?
Washington Post: "His campaign is rooted in this moseyin' man of the people mien, and McBride carefully cultivates the image.
The aw-shucks aura is essential to McBride's canny strategy .."
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