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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (4818)	11/4/2000 6:51:24 PM
From: brutusdog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

You mean there won't be a President D-Dubya-I?

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (4818)	11/4/2000 7:04:11 PM
From: D.Austin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

or could care less Clinton trap. Saturday, November 4, 2000 12:01 a.m. EST From "After Lewinsky, This Will Barely Register at Polls," a report in London's Daily Telegraph, Nov. 4: The post-Watergate wisdom decrees that it's not the crime that does you in, but the cover-up. But by teatime yesterday--after a good old-fashioned day of Washington media speculation and hysteria--it was looking as if the leak might turn out to be the issue, and it could be Vice-President Al Gore who ends up with a bloody nose. . . . Indeed, by the end of the day it was the Gore campaign that was pushed back on to the defensive, protesting that it was "ridiculous and preposterous" to suggest that they had put up the Democrat activist in Maine to dish the dirt on Mr Bush. As the Washington-based political analysts intoned on the seriousness of drink driving, caller after caller amid the millions who listen to the daytime radio talk shows rang up to point the finger at the Gore campaign for a transparent smear. Almost two thirds of Americans have a friend or family member who has been caught driving over the limit. Opinion poll-based research shows that Americans regard a drink-driving conviction in a politician to be slightly naughtier than having a mistress, but much less wicked than fiddling taxes or taking cocaine. . . . Ironically, Mr Bush has the present president to thank for the public's relatively relaxed response to his indiscretion. Eight years into the Clinton presidency--after two terms of scandal, lies and impeachment--few Americans are likely to let a few beers a quarter of a century ago change the way they vote. opinionjournal.com