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- From: sieferme@stein.u.washington.edu (Eric Sieferman)
- Subject: Re: The real Dan Quayle
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.175827.14239@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:58:27 GMT
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- In article <crb2.722101553@Ra.MsState.Edu> crb2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Chad R. Berthelson) writes:
- >dejst5+@pitt.edu (David E Joslin) writes:
-
- >I don't think you should hope for the incompetent (being safe..they
- >have to lose), we republicans did that this year. We thought surely
- >that a draft-dodging adultering waffle king with a bad record on
- >raising taxes on the people of a small state that happens to rank
- >about last in all positive measures would be a sure thing for us.
-
- Well, it might have been a sure-thing for the RepubliCons,
- except that the RepubliCon candidate was a pathologically lying
- adultering waffle king with a bad record of raising taxes on
- the entire nation. Let's not forget that this same
- candidate spent most of his term telling the American
- people that we were not in a recession. This candidate
- also thinks that Dan Quayl is qualified to be President,
- and that Clarence Thomas is qualified to be a lifetime
- member of the US Supreme Court.
-
- The RepubliCon spin/apologists are already
- propagating the line the Bush could have won if
- (choose one) (a) he had stuck to pure conservative
- Reaganite principles (b) the Republican Convention
- had not been such a hate-fest (c) the campaign had
- been run by a pit-bull like the late Lee Atwater
- (d) Perot had not been in the campaign
- (e) Perot had not left the campaign in July.
- They can keep believing any fantasy they choose.
- Bush lost because he was the worst President
- since Coolidge.
-
- >I actually worried that Paul Songass (sp?) would get nominated and
- >give us a run for the money. Don't underestimate the gullability
- >and naivity of the voter.
-
- After 1980 and 1984, I no longer underestimate the gullability
- of the voter. The 1992 campaign will be notable as the first
- one in many years in which there was high voter interest
- and knowledge of the actual issues that separated the
- three candidates. Stripped of the slick feel-good advertising
- and the wild distortions of recent presidential campaigns,
- the national Republican ticket simply had little to offer
- the American people.
-
- If Quayl is a serious candidate in 1996, and especially
- if he wins the nomination, it will show that the Republican
- party has learned nothing from this year's defeat.
-
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