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- From: mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com (Mike Polen)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: Bob Dole, Sore Loser
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 21:08:34 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- References: <1992Dec19.072817.8182@netcom.com> <1992Dec21.184322.13730@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Keywords: Inconsistent, inconsistent, inconsistent
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- Douglas Meier) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec19.072817.8182@netcom.com> nbh@netcom.com (N.B. Hedd) writes:
- |> >Hey, Bob baby--you LOST! Get it through your head: your shot
- |> >at the title went down the drain with Bush. You, Kemp, Baker,
- |> >and Marilyn are the biggest losers in the entire country,
- |> >and you know it (who in the right mind would vote for
- |> >yet another corroded old Republican hack in '96?), and
- |> >that's why you keep carping this ridiculous "Clinton doesn't
- |> >have a mandate" bullsh*t.
- |>
- |> They've voted for party hacks before, and they'll do it again. Hell, they
- |> voted for Clinton, who's beginning to show that he's just as capable of
- |> making good ol' boy appointments as anyone else. And Clinton's only true
- |> mandate is to make sure his decisions don't piss off enough people that he
- |> gets voted out. By several accounts, people who voted for Clinton voted
- |> for him because he wasn't Bush and they didn't think Perot or anyone else
- |> had a chance. The rest of us who didn't want Bush to win and didn't like
- |> Clinton either voted Perot or for a fourth party candidate.
- |>
- This sounds just like what took place when Bush won. How come when your
- candidates lose it's underhanded and surreptitious, and when your guy
- wins, it's just good clean politics. How about we stop reliving the
- last election and start working on the next 4 years.
-
- --
- These opinions are usually my own, sometimes my dog's,
- occasionaly my (grown) children's, never my employer's.
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