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

To: jlallen who wrote (37634)	3/10/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

By the way, I have never spoken with George Will, although I have heard him speak in person on a few occasions. He, like me, recommends that conservatives take their cue from Ronald Reagan, his optimism, cheerfulness, generosity, and tendency to appeal to peoples' better angels. I did, once, do him a small favor. A group of students wanted to have their picture taken with him, and I expedited matters by volunteering to take the picture for them.

To: jlallen who wrote (37634)	3/10/1999 12:34:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Gerald Ford was a disgrace. He lost the popular vote in the Rep primaries but took the nomination with unelected delegates. I wrote in Reagan when casting my first presidential vote. (I even voted for DEMOCRAT Gloria Schaefer against Lowell Weicker - my crap detector has always been state of the art). I was very pleased to see that Reagan won one electoral vote from WA - not my state but my vote realized. I felt vindicated that exit polls showed that Reagan would have easily defeated Carter. Just imagine how much money could have been saved had the Cold War ended four years earlier. Carter was functionally clueless until Afghanistan. I held my nose and voted for Bush in 1992, but I knew that while in '88 Reagan won that election for Bush, Bush was running on his record. Combined with Bush's fecklessness, it was the Perot insanity that sealed the election for Clinton. The electorate never really focused on Clinton, what with the Perot pyrotechnics. The fact that Perot got out when it helped Clinton and got back in when it hurt Bush certainly seemed fishy at the time. Even fishier are Perot's crazed reasons, i.e, the Reps were going to destroy his daughter's wedding and later, that people had spoken and wanted him back. Yeah, just when Bush had pulled even or ahead. Facts are that Clinton was unable to get over 50% and with Perot back in Clinton could win without a majority. Talking about smell: Many people wondered why Perot worked to Clinton's benefit, just hatred of Bush or something else? That something else may have been why Hillary and Co. fought the release of the names on their health care task forces. Reports were that when the names were revealed, Perot was there. That jives with reports were that there was a deal between Clinton and Perot, that in return for sabotaging Bush, Perot would get government contracts to process the records for the new government health system. Reports noted that Perot had built EDS largely from processing medicare and medicaid and wanted the new business for his new company. I wonder if any intrepid reporter has followed up on this? Of course if it ever is established as fact, it will be done well after it can harm Slick. Then the refrain will be "So what. The American people knew it when they elected him". Right.