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Article #663new scare tactics
From: Mark Crispin
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:10
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:10
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I'm starting to see a proliferation of the following signs: A Vote for Perot is a Vote for Bush I see. It seems that the argument offered by Clinton supporters is not that their candidate is any good, but rather that he is not Bush. There's no doubt that Bush should not be re-elected. But what is Clinton offering as an alternate? His vice president is Mr. Tipper (`sure, I like rock-and-roll music, I even bought some Pat Boone albums') Gore. He's the governor of a state whose constitution forbids non-believers in `god' from public office, from serving on a jury, and from testifying in court (even in one's own defense), and has refused to answer repeated requests to state his position on that. He's demonstrated evasiveness and lack of frankness. The only real winner of this election will be the real reactionaries, the Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan camp. The Pats have been trying to torpedo the amiable wishy-washy Nelson Rockefeller branch of Republicanism (Bush is the latest manefestation) for decades. They don't care how bad a Clinton adminstration would be; in fact, the worse, the better from their perspective. Perot at least offers another choice. He's the only one who has a credible agenda for what needs to be done. If you think President Perot is a scarey thought, consider President Robertson sometime...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!news From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: pnw.general Subject: new scare tactics Message-ID: <MS-C.719003457.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> Date: 13 Oct 92 19:10:57 GMT Article-I.D.: Tomobiki.MS-C.719003457.1103527590.mrc Sender: news@u.washington.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Washington Lines: 22 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mime-Version: 1.0