October 30, 1992
Dear Everyone:
Soon…soon…soon. Soon the
Election will be over, nothing but a distant, distasteful memory.
Just another bad dream.
Like a dutiful little
Republican, I watched all
of the debates, despite the obvious anti-West Coast bias in the timing.
After careful consideration, I have reached one absolute
conclusion: I like
Admiral
Stockdale. (“Who am I?
Why am I here?” I am
not a politician.”)
After Dan Quayle
tore into Al Gore in
the Vice-Presidential free-for-all,
Bush’s
advisors reportedly told him to emulate his running mate.
What a come-down!!!
Then he couldn’t do it because a child psychologist got up and asked the
candidates to “cross your hearts you won’t be nasty to each other and
will concentrate on the issues”.
Where did this guy come from, the far side of the moon?
Doesn’t he know anything about politics?
In the “questions from the audience” format, it didn’t matter
what the question was, the answers were always the same:
Bush said he was already doing it (so how come nobody’s
noticed?);
Perot said he’d get a “consensus”; and
Clinton rattled off a 19-point plan to fix the problem and charge
the costs to “the rich”.
Having Perot in on the debates turned them into a 3-ring circus:
An aging lion-tamer, a slippery acrobat, and a clown, juggling
bar graphs.
Bush keeps saying that “recovery is just around the corner”.
This has a chilling ring when you remember that Herbert Hoover,
just before the Great Depression, said:
“Prosperity is just around the corner.”
Of course everyone is blaming Bush for the recession/non-recover.
That’s the President’s job, to take the blame when things aren’t
going right (just as he tries to take the credit for the collapse of the
Soviet Union, a feat that we all know is due to “Jeannie” not writing
any letters in the past 20 years.)
Where Ronald Reagan
was the “Teflon President”, Bush has become the “Velcro President”.
Everything sticks to him.
Everything from the economy to the
Serbs and
Croats in used-to-be-Yugoslavia,
who’ve been shooting at each other since before guns were invented.
And all he can do about
Clinton is
question his character and honesty.
This from a man whose continuous cover-up of his involvement in
Iran-Contra and arming
Saddam Hussein
has been referred to as “the rolling stonewall”.
(Republicans: The
Party that can’t sling mud straight.)
Bush keeps asking, “Who do you want in charge when there’s a Crisis?”
Look around you, George.
We’re already in a
Crisis! Our big Crises is
eatin’ all our little Crises.
As for the others: Perot is
an amusing little popinjay.
But ever since his revelation of “Daughter gate”, I can’t quite find it
in my heart to believe that his elevator goes all the way to the top
floor.
And why is it that these guys always trot out their little girls when
they screw up? Does the name
Oliver North
ring any bells? He said he
lied to Congress for the sake of his little girls.
And how many remember Tricky Dick (that’s “elder statesman”
Richard Nixon
to you youngsters) and his famous “Checkers”
speech? When he got caught
with his hand in the cookie jar, he said he was sorry and he gave the
money back. But he wouldn’t
give back the puppy, Checkers, because his little girls were just too
fond of it. How dumb do they
think we are, anyway?
And then there’s
Bill Clinton. Frankly,
Clinton scares me. He just
might follow through on some of those campaign promises of his and then
where would we be?
Just one more thing. What
odds will you give that
Time Magazine’s 1992 Man of the Year will be….Larry
King?
Love, as always,
Pete
PS. Remember, when in doubt,
vote No on even and Yes on odd.
And this year, they’re odder than ever.
P.
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