This page is my sounding board for election issues and my views and opinions of the weft and warp of the election. Those who stop by now and then to see what's going on on these pages might recall that I called the 1996 election as though I scripted the darned thing. This election is not shaping up to be quite so clear cut, but here's how I see it so far:
Gore: Good character, good record in Congress, good record as VP with the exception
of some bumbling mistakes with accepting campaign contributions.
Bush: Sucks up special interest money like a malted milkshake, in hock to
industrial polluters and big-dollar businesses.
Gore: Good foreign policies, very knowledgable, respected and well-liked on
the international scene.
Bush: Couldn't name the leaders of all the European nations without a cheat sheet.
No relationships with any world leaders. No idea how to handle international
relationships.
Gore: Not for guns, not against guns, but believes in limited gun-control.
Bush: NRA lackey.
Gore: Will most likely continue the economic policies have been so scorchingly
successful under Clinton.
Bush: Will probably try to take a page from his ole Daddy and steer us back to
Reaganomics. Bad. Very bad. Already proposing tax cuts that will kill the current
momentum Clinton has generated towards getting the nation out of debt.
Joe Lieberman: Who? Ok, so he's Jewish. Good for him. But what has he done lately?
Dick Cheney: Good candidate for VP, but a bad combination with Bush. It's like
looking at the stereotypical White-Over-50-Good-Ole-Boy system. Bush would have
done SO much better to pick someone that was a minority, but I guess that was
asking too much. Republican politicians like nothing better than the conservative
status quo... As it is, the two of them are like bread and... bread. Bland.
Hopefully for Bush, Cheney will bring the necessary experience to balance the ticket.
It's almost like the last time a Bush ran for the Presidency, only reversed; imagine
Dan Quayle picking G. Bush Sr. as his V.P. ...
I thought it would be more than interesting if he'd picked one of the numerous qualitifed women in politics today, someone like Dianne Feinstein. She's tough, she's intelligent, and she's been darn good so far in representing California. And as an added bonus, she probably will *not* mess around with any of her interns during her term in office... But, he picked Lieberman. Who? Out of left field, an unknown, a convolutedly religious Jew with a pretty darned good record in Congress.