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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JEB who wrote (269653)	7/3/2002 2:57:05 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

BUSH FAMILY OUT TO ENRICH BUSH FAMILY AT AMERICA'S EXPENSE JEB, Do I really think what will work against Bush? Telling the truth? Oh, if it is endlessly repeated and the public isn't seduced by the superior media budgets of the GOP, the Ad Council, the Business Roundtable and the DoD. But it is clearly an uphill battle against entrenched forces that see the truth as something to be discarded for the sake of profits and the retention of power. The truth is in very short supply in America today. The GOP likes it that way. Better for business.

To: JEB who wrote (269653)	7/3/2002 10:43:43 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<do you really think it will work against Bush as well as it worked for Clinton?>> It's all they've got. There is a % of corruption in any group of human beings. The Republicans are within nominal parameters, to abuse NASAspeak a bit, and are still constrained by principle. Yes, a majority of people in our society still have been raised right, and attempt to avoid sin to the best of their mortal abilities. What has changed is the public perception since the Clinton era. In a worst case, the Republicans could be ass-deep in corruption and laughing about it today, with NO political penalty. Why? Because the Clintons successfully made lying and lawbreaking POPULAR for a while, and the Democrats are suffering the consequences that occur after that all-night-ethics-drunk wears off. The public will never expect perfection from any group of humans. It just isn't reasonable. But for the next few years, the Democrats are tagged as the "party of the Big Lie", and they must gradually overcome that to become politically viable again some day. They are going about it very slowly, if at all. P.J. O'Rouke put it most succinctly during Impeachment, "The Republicans can still be hypocrites, because they still know right from wrong."...