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

To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (39998)	3/24/1999 12:58:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

I understand, although I personally came to love Reagan. Listen, an acquaintance of mine who had been instrumental in getting the Social Democrats of America to endorse Reagan over Carter, thus leading to a split, and the creation of the Democratic Socialists of America by Michael Harrington (may he rest in peace), was wooed by the Clinton campaign. He was practically promised the Human Rights slot at the State Department (his specialty is foreign affairs), and he came out for Clinton. He didn't get the job, or even a good substitute. Although he had supported Reagan, it would have meant alot to him to have seen a revival of serious foreign policy in a Democratic Administration, and to have been a part of it. I sympathized, but we had a sharp exchange in the pages of Commentary over an article he wrote explaining his support of Clinton, where I basically blamed him for sentimentality and a failure to recognize the true character of the guy. Even I was ambivalent through most of the '80s about becoming an official Republican, since I am from an ethnic, working class/lower middle class background. But I once met James Meredith, who integrated Ol' Miss, and was working for Strom Thurmond at the time, at a conservative get together, and he had a simple but apt comment on the irony of it all: "times change"...:-)