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On her first run, the anointed "nominee" was Helen Delich Bentley, a Congresswoman, a moderate Republican. Those who were dissatisfied with the state GOP rallied around Sauerbrey, who was the Newt Gingrich of the House of Delegates, as it were, leading the minority into a more aggressive stance. Although the main thrust of the campaign was a major tax cut, she was also pro- life and pro- voucher, among other things. Did she waffle? She never repudiated a position, but I suppose she may have tried to keep the focus on the more winnable issues. Anyway, when Suaerbrey won the nomination, Bentley and a number of her friends either "faded away", or only grudgingly supported the nominee. Some even failed to endorse her for the second run, I believe.....I do not think that we have discussed "Shine". My take? Although Geofferey Rush is a good actor, he was outdone by the boy who played the young pianist; there was a circus air about the whole thing, since the pianist is not quite well, and continues to babble and lose his place when he plays; and what is a tragedy becomes a bit of a melodrama, and then the "feel good movie of the year". What the movie should be about is how Hitler reached beyond the camps to harm the children of Holocaust survivors. Instead, it became a movie about a too strict father, and the healing power of a good woman...... |
