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- From: art@world.std.com (Al Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Bob Dole, Sore Loser
- In-Reply-To: nbh@netcom.com's message of 30 Dec 92 09:06:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <ART.93Jan1112946@world.std.com>
- Sender: art@world.std.com (Al Thompson)
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec19.072817.8182@netcom.com> <1992Dec21.184322.13730@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- <1h5boiINNsop@spim.mti.sgi.com> <1992Dec30.090612.20666@netcom.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:29:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.090612.20666@netcom.com> nbh@netcom.com (N.B. Hedd) writes:
-
- mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com (Mike Polen) writes:
-
- >How come when your
- >candidates lose it's underhanded and surreptitious, and when your guy
- >wins, it's just good clean politics.
-
- Oh, that's EASY--the difference is that the Democrats, unlike the
- Republicans, don't have dirty tricks squads, wiretaps, plumbers, etc etc.
- If you look at the last 30 years of American politics, the Republicans
- are winding up in jail at about a 10:1 ratio compared to Democrats. This is
- a simple fact--a matter of public record. We don't have a Nixon, an Agnew,
- a Sununnu, etc etc etc until you could scream. Democrats, see, are the
- good guys. We don't commit felonies to get elected. We don't rifle our
- opponents' passport files. We don't lie to Congress. We don't have to
- resort to pardoning felons in the middle of the night to save our own
- necks.
-
- No, the dems just have 80% of the Keating five, Jim Wright, Tony Coelho,
- Bobby Baker, Lyndon Johnson, Otto Kerner, the Greylord judges in Chicago.
- I could go on, but I suspect you get the point.
-
- Oh, speaking of committing felonies to get elected, would you care to
- comment on LBJ's 1948 election to the Senate?
-
-