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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (12106)	2/23/2000 2:55:00 PM
From: themadsnooker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

<<<You Republicans can't even pick a winner when he's in the lead!!! You are all following the party dogma right down the path to defeat. >>> Yes, that is why we have become known as "The Stupid Party". In the good old days the party was content to fight communism and cut taxes. Now it feels compelled to dictate standards of morality. Really, it's not a party at all anymore, just a bunch of jackasses sitting around pontificating while cleaning their gun collections and praising Jesus.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (12106)	2/23/2000 3:25:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I'm glad somebody else sees the entertainment value in this race. Oddly, McCain's co-sponsor Russ Feingold lives about a half mile from me. Strange bedfellows, McCain is really conservative, and Feingold isn't, though he had a brief term as the G.O.P.'s poster Democrat during the impeachment saga. Couple months before that, he was the #1 target of the Rep. Senate committee, headed by Mitch "Campaign reform over my dead body" McConnell. An amusing story on that, the first one that came up on a NYT search: Tally Is Mixed for Foe of Revising Campaign Finances, NYT 11/6/98. A bit from the beginning of that story: He was not on the ballot, but Tuesday's election was a referendum of sorts on Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who is chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and a staunch foe of revising the campaign finance laws. The results were decidedly mixed. Bad news for McConnell came from Wisconsin, where Russell Feingold, a Democrat, was re-elected. Feingold has been crusading to pass legislation to overhaul the campaign finance system, and he made the effort a central issue in his race against Rep. Mark Neumann. McConnell not only was the leader of efforts to kill the campaign finance bill this year, his committee had poured nearly $1 million into Wisconsin television commercials attacking Feingold. "I'm coming your way Senator McConnell," Feingold declared on Tuesday at his re-election victory party in xxx, Wis., vowing to redouble his efforts to change the way elections are financed. It was a really close race, Feingold stuck to his ideals and was outspent by a ton. Oddly, I'd put his opponent Neumann, in a class similar to McCain, too, he'd had some problems as a class of '94 congressman, got booted out of a prime Defense subcommittee appointment because he had the temerity to ask why nobody was taking a hard look at defense spending when balancing the budget was supposed to be such a big deal in the "contract". Feingold hanging on didn't matter in the short term, of course, there was a lot of posturing about campaign finance reform during the past year and a half, but it was always a dead issue, the majority party in congress knows where its bread is buttered. However McCain/Bush turns out, the Rep. posturing on campaign finance come election time is going to be highly amusing too. Extra amusing if the $70 million man wins the nomination, then turns around and presents himself as a "reformer" on that issue, too! We can hope! Cheers, Dan.