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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Who, me? who wrote (7145)	10/4/1998 6:31:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Congrats, who me! The now-US Congresswoman Linda Smith used to be a Democrat, too. Then she met her husband Vern, and he began to explain what the Republicans stood for, and what the Democrats stood for. Since then, she's been a Republican, and never looked back!

To: Who, me? who wrote (7145)	10/4/1998 7:27:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I voted for Carter the first time (importantly influenced by the belief that Ford was such a dufus), and was hugely disappointed by Carter. That fundamentalist moral vision just didn't accomplish much in the world of realpolitik, and trumped his Navy nuclear engineer and self taught historian smarts. Voted for Reagan the next time. Liked his strengthening of the military after its humiliation and great decline, and his standing up to Soviet third world last gasp expansionism (didn't seem so last gasp at the time). I also liked his facing down the Air Controllers union. And his efforts to reduce wasteful Democratic ideologically unbending spending. Demos had held Congress for too long, and it showed. But I thought his own unbending budget deficits were potentially disastrous, if continued. (He HAD to compromise, and didn't. If it had kept going, lord help us.) So I then voted against him, more than for anyone else. (What I probably would have most wanted to have been offered was a chance to vote for Bush right then and there.) Then I voted for Bush the first time. Then Clinton, as better for the economy and domestic progress. (I felt a little guilty about this, sort of like the British voting against Churchill after WWII. I think Bush's accomplishments in Desert Shield and Storm were truly masterful. He rallied international support, and then used that as an inducement towards domestic support. He started with a defensive Desert Shield effort, intending all the while to move to a Desert Storm effort. But meanwhile he built the necessary support overseas and at home. He believed in the re-invigorated American military, although much of the country had doubts. He also was prepared to take risks, big risks, in what he regarded as both a just cause, and one that was central to American security and geopolitical interests. I supported him in this effort from the very beginning. And said so to all my friends. Rather insistently, I might add. <gg> (I was also opposed to the Vietnam war.)) Doug