From: 92price@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics
Subject: RNC II: The Second Night
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:39:37 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

I didn't think I would, but there was the TV, so I flipped on the Republican
National Convention.  It appears tonight was a significant downturn since last
night, which featured our ex-President, the one who claimed he was too old and
senile to remember the details of an arms-for-hostages-for-drugs deal that he
orchestrated secretly because he thought it was of such utmost importance to
national security.  Tonight, according to CNN, people were "bored" with the
speakers, "not paying much attention," "blowing bubbles," and "people started
leaving as soon as the keynote speaker began speaking."  Footage of
supposedly-average Rebulican-inclined persons said they were not impressed,
were turned off by the Clinton bashing, and now favor Clinton.  It's not much
of a surprise, after all the focus of the convention seems to be:

1) Bush's miserable record doesn't matter because it's all Congress' fault.
2) Bush doesn't have any _new_ ideas, but that doesn't matter because Clinton
       is Satan incarnate and his ideas are worse than no ideas at all.
3) If the Democrats are going to position themselves as moderates, then the
       Republicans are going to posture themselves in the far right and
       alienate as many borderline moderates as possible, so  to have a
       chance at the votes of the ultra-rightist loonies.
4) Don't even bother to try to be clever about it, just twist, misrepresent,
       lie, "whatever it takes to win" to them about the history and state of
       the world to make it sound like everthing is cheery, all due to the
       Republicans, e.g. "the Soviet Union collapsed because George Bush was
       President," or "everyone across the world loves America and George
       Bush."

Yow, and the convention goers:  cowboys, rich kids, blonde fluezies, ugly
people who don't dress very stylishly and are probably afraid of computers. 
And a lot, a whole lot of them looking bored and dillusioned, with expressions
that seem to say, "why am I here listening to these old men ramble on about
nothing?  Get to the point, please, what are _we_ gonna do to fix things? 
Maybe these people really are the Old Guard."

Overall, an enjoyable experience watching the conservatives going down in
flames (no pun intended) despite their lies, frightening ideas, and hate
speech.  Although to be fair, Kemp was not too bad, he said some positive
things and sounded like he might actually _have_ some ideas about how to make
things better.  He was more inclusionary than the others, and the Republicans
responded better to him.  It looks like he might be the Republican candidate in
1996 (although he has made no comments) and I think he might be hard to beat
because he comes across as so much more reasonable than the others.  Does any
body think that it might help to mend things between Dems & Repubs in Congress
if Clinton appointed Kemp to the same place in his cabinet we he gets elected? 
Does anyone think it might neutralize that powerful potential 1996 Republican
bid for the Presidency?
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                                      ;-)        |      Kai Alexis Price
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