From: gpn0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GARY PHILIP NEWHART)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics
Subject: Re: the gipper saves the night from being sank by the loose
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:43:02 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <POLITICS%92081811533414@OHSTVMA.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU>, KSTE@PURCCVM.B
ITNET (Kerry Stephenson) writes:
>Gary:
>
>You say "the Democrats were paragons of smoothness compared to this."
>Yes, and isn't that the point?  The Democrats ran a highly *undemocratic*
>convention.  The full platform committee at the DNC only voted up/down
>on the whole thing.  At *this* convention, each subcommittee met, argued
>over every word of their plank, submitted it to the committee, and *then*
>the platform committee voted on *every* *single* *word* of the final
>product.
>
>For those expecting that the Republicans are losing delegates with the
>prolife plank, you should pay closer attention.  When the summary of that
>plank was made yesterday, when the chairlady of the committee said, "and
>we believe in the sanctity of human life, including the life of the unborn,"
>she got the longest sustained applause of the morning (longer than mention
>of George Bush, school choice, or free trade got, longer than Rich Bond,
>Sally Atwater, or Trent Lott got.)
>
>It really amuses me that all the commentators want to talk about is the
>abortion plank, when it is decided.  If you watch CSPAN (the platform
>debates, the committee meetings, and the convention itself), you see the
>event itself--if you watch the big three opinionated commentating networks
>(and even CNN gets into it)--you see what *they* want you to think happened.
>There is a *huge* difference.
>
>Pay attention to the temporary chair from Texas:  the "block-everything,
>do-nothing Congress" line will be repeated.  So will the "King Congress"
>line.  And it will play *beautifully* in Peoria.  And BTW, Bush has *twice*
>submitted a 3-year balanced budget proposal, which the Democrats will not
>pass.  It doesn't take an economist to know that you can't submit a
>1-year balanced budget.
>
>If you can defend the check-bouncing, high-living, undemocratic Democrat
>Congress, go right ahead and try.  The fact is that the *Congress* has
>the responsibility to pass legislation, and they haven't done it.  Took
>'em less than 24 hours to raise their own pay, though.  Now that's
>efficiency.
>
>BTW, as I write, Nancy Johnson of Connecticut is making a pro-choice
>speech.  Bob Casey, come home.  Republicans are the party of civilized
>debate on *every* issue.  The Democrat party is the party of political
>correctness, Broadway productions, and fiscal irresponsibility.
>
>Don't inhale.
>
>--Missy P 2 B
>
Missy:
If ther democrats held their usual debate laden convention, then folks such as
yourself would extoll the virtues of the republican party, their ability to
stick together. You remember the former democratic conventions that were full
of discussions...these were labeled as fractured conventions.
With respect to don't inhale, your comment is as unfounded as the rhetoric
over the potato (e) issue. Quayle was given a card from one of his staffers,
stating the correct spelling was....
Maybe you should inhale. You might learn something you didn't already (think
that you) know.
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