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To: Zoltan! who wrote (14069)	3/5/2000 8:16:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769667

And now we see why the Media is so frantic in its all-out push for McCain: Top Stories Headlines Add to My Yahoo! Sunday March 5 7:15 AM ET Bush Edges Up in New York As Big Vote Draws Near Bush now leads McCain by six points in New York, 45-39 per percent, and the trend has been in his direction for the past five days. dailynews.yahoo.com

To: Zoltan! who wrote (14069)	3/5/2000 11:41:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Zoltan, thanks for the news articles. Surprise indeed! I suppose it's every day the N.Y. Times endorses a conservative. As we lead into the decisive primary, it looks like they're getting pretty desperate to find a candidate which Al Gore can defeat. It's also interesting to witness the liberal hecklers come out in droves on this thread a couple of days before the most important primary. They must be feeling pretty insecure about Al Gore's chances against George W. I also wonder why the supporters of Al Gore haven't started a thread on SI to talk about their favorite candidate? Much easier I suppose to be cynically against everything than FOR something. Michael

To: Zoltan! who wrote (14069)	3/5/2000 1:41:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Zoltan, you're showing yourself to be a card-carrying member of the paranoid fringe if you think the NYT endorsement is "Orwellian" and "The choice of hard-left Dems"...I'm beginning to understand just how besieged you guys feel by the liberal orthodoxy and how much pleasure you get out of this fantasy. It seems to head off at the pass in your minds anything but the most reflexive antipathies towards any train of thought that doesn't fit neatly inside your little mental thought boxes. <<Mr. McCain's potential proceeds from deeper knowledge about government and a commitment to reform as a guiding idea rather than a hastily adopted slogan. ... ... the smarter course for Republicans would be to choose Mr. McCain, who would not have to be repackaged and repositioned when it comes to outreach and reform. He has a proven ability to get votes from the vital center of the American spectrum. He began with a vow to destroy the "iron triangle" of donations, lobbyists and legislation. He broke further with the Republican leadership to oppose Mr. Bush's outsized tax-cut scheme as too weighted toward the wealthy. Bravely, and perhaps foolishly, he became the first important Republican figure to challenge leaders of the religious right for intimidating the party with religious-based litmus tests. This has led Beltway Republicans to launch a nonsensical effort to depict Mr. McCain as a false conservative. The charge is wrong on the facts. Mr. McCain has opposed gun control and abortion. In the foreign policy area, he has been one of the Clinton administration's toughest critics. Although we do not agree with many of these positions, we think Republican voters should judge him on his real record, not the falsified version being pushed by Mr. Bush's right-wing enforcers. As a zestful insurgent battling to open his party, Mr. McCain has brought gusts of fresh air, excitement and common sense to American politics. Despite our differences with him on abortion and other important policies, we respect his politics of principle and his opposition to Congressional influence-peddling, and we recommend him to voters in the Republican primaries. >>