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- From: mwmv@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu (Michael Mogensen-Vermillion)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: Why Dan ?
- Keywords: the veep
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.233725.26340@news.vanderbilt.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 23:37:25 GMT
- References: <102347@bu.edu>
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- In article <102347@bu.edu> matthew@spica.bu.edu (Matthew Fox) writes:
- >
- >
- > We do seem to have received a few new posters recently who feel
- >obliged to defend Dan as well,
- >
- > conservative/believer in small government/champion of trad. values
- >
- > 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 ?
-
- How about leading the Council on Competiveness in pulling the teeth
- of any eviromental legislation, (including the Clean Air Act that
- George was so proud of during the campaign) ?
-