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- From: matthew@spica.bu.edu (Matthew Fox)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Why Dan ?
- Keywords: the veep
- Message-ID: <102347@bu.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:25:42 GMT
- Sender: news@bu.edu
- Organization: Information Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Lines: 30
- Originator: matthew@spica.bu.edu
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- We do seem to have received a few new posters recently who feel
- obliged to defend Dan as well,
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- conservative/believer in small government/champion of trad. values
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- or whatever. What puzzles me is the following. Even if I myself was
- a pure Republican conservative (which I'm not), why would I feel that
- Dan, still the VP, is actually worthwhile as VP.
- Yes, he has on various occasions, clumsily made statements declaring
- things that he "believes in", but
- 1. How has any of this belief structure been put into practise ?
- 2. What has Dan actually done (other than speak, which is not
- his strong suit, let's face it) for the conservative causes ?
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- Personally, I think the disrespect shown Dan in this group is as much
- a result of his apparent lack of substance, as what he claims his substance
- actually is.
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- Also, some posters praise Dan for standing up to media abuse. Well, fine,
- but what is it they feel a lesser man would have reacted with, that makes
- the deer-in-the-headlights approach so appealing ?
-
- cheers
- --
- Matthew W. Fox : Exile from the Wide Brown Land
- Center for Space Physics, Boston University
- matthew@spica.bu.edu : Another walnut-sized contribution to the Brain Drain
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