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To: LindyBill who started this subject	9/13/2004 1:23:37 AM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) of 793916

Roger Simon put his finger on why the left is becoming completely unhinged during this particular election cycle and why Kerry's impending loss is going to be particularly messy. ....All of us confronted with the draft back in Vietnam days had several choices from enlisting to fleeing the country. One was the NG and the conventional wisdom about that was that it was a "long slog," but it tended to "dribble off" at the end. Well, I'm reasonably sure that CW was right and that Bush's guard service, like almost everyone else's, did dribble off. And since so many people know this, most of us are about as interested in this story as we are in soy futures in Kazakhstan. The Rather Story is rather different. [Did you actually write that?--ed. You're fired!]But what is most fascinating to me now is how the media is playing it. Leaving aside the obvious... that had the forged document come from the other side this would be trumpeted all over the front pages... I think this is causing considerable nervousness. I doubt Rather is a well-loved figure. The pompous rarely are and he's as pompous as it gets. But he is very much of them. He is part of the fabric of their self-image and their reality. I identified with that reality for ninety percent of my life. I know how complex it is to unravel that, how much risk it is to your entire personality structure. This is serious business...... rogerlsimon.com Yet they still dare to play with the politics of experience and yet they're still surprised at the natural results.......

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