Right, brees. Beside Borzou's rather obvious example of Al D'Amato, we wouldn't want to forget Dick "Breath" Armey, and his famous "slip of the tongue" with "Barney Fag". Then there's a personal favorite, Slade Gorton, R-Washington, prime mover behind my favorite "honest" piece of legislation, the Salvage Rider, aka the Forest Health Preservation Act of '94. Where, in Viet Nam style, we have to clearcut the forests in order to save them. On the adultery front, we have another personal favorite, Helen Chenoweth, R-Idaho, who had Newt come in last election to throw mud at her opponent's personal life, while Helen no doubt kept talking about the "Black Helicopters", almost as obvious a cause of the decline of the West as Bill Clinton, when not off doing her own little trysts. B-1 Bob Dornan is mercifully out of office for the moment, otherwise he'd fit right in.
I can't say anything about right wing wackos anymore though. Now that "Decline of the West due to Clinton" is official dogma among conservatives like William Bennett and Irving Kristol, the wacko has apparently gone mainstream on that side of the aisle. Nonpartisan Newt has a rescue plan for the West in the works, though. I'll leave it to jlallen to explain how the Libertarian wing will suddenly emerge to reclaim the party after Clinton's gone, after s/he explains the Randian "moral judgement" bit in the context of Rand's open and honest adultery and bracing atheism. Those bits would go down well with the "Decline of the West" crowd, I'm sure. |
