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Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:17:33 -0400
From:         Andrew Allen <E7L8ALL@TOWSONVX.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Moves to Help Bush

Central  Scrutinizer here. Anyone but Jamie need this?

Sue Clark saw Cal Thomas and George Will give advice to the GOP on how
to win the 1992 election, and wanted our ideas. Personally, the LAST thing
I want is four more years of the GOP running our government, but I'll throw
my two cents in.

>1) Show the flags and representativesof nations no longer under communism
>during the Reagan/Bush administration.

Well, that could be countered by an explaination that those countries fell
because of years of entrenched power ignoring the people and spending way
too much on weapons, or should that be "the party of change" using "benign
neglect" while stockpiling an "arsenal for freedom?"

Nah, that sounds too much like the last 12 years . . .

>2) Crediting workers from defenseindustries who countered the Soviets.

Decent tactic. I suppose someone has to whine about useless weapons and why
they are not so useless, but I wonder how many actual defence workers there
are, and if this is the best use of finite resources.

>3) Remind that most Democrats opposed peace-through-strength under Ronald
>Reagan which defeat communism.

Communism fell apart from the inside. Gorby admitted that the walls were
cracking and started doing the work but he started too late and too many
people inside the walls wanted out. The only help Reaganbush caused was
the continued Pentagon pork-barrel that drew attention away from their
internal discontent and ours.

However, considering that the Democratic Leadership Council seemed to support
that end, and both Clinton and Gore were pro-Gulf War, this sort of attack
might not be advisable.

>4) Invite Gianna Jessen to speak. (She was a late term fetus who survived
>a late-term abortion).

Sure, drive out the GOP pro-choice people, just like you say the Dems drove
out the pro-lifers. That's a GREAT way to keep people voting for you.

>5) Invite Lee Ezell to speak. (a woman raped in 1962 who had her child)

I don't know how advisable that is. Run on Abortion alone and you get accused
of being devicive (sp? that CAN'T be right...), but run with Abortion as part
of a full-looking "family values" platform and you have the infamous "politics
of meaning" down pat.

>6) Invite pro-life Democrats to speak as the Demos invited pro-abortion Reps.

Would be playing fair. Keeps a certain bipartisanship, but without the unified
"family values" platform, it continues to redefine "Dem-GOP" as "Choice-Life,"
which does no one any good.

>7) Invite parents who have adopted unplanned pregnancy children to speak.

Good soundbite potential. No news value, very "warm and fuzzy," has nothing
to do with the issues - Classic political rhetoric.

>8) Invite black Reps. who own smallbusinesses they started during R/B years
>because taxes were lowered and incentives increased.

Could be used to deny charges that "welfare cheater" and "willie horton" bites
are racist. Hell, cut out most of the "censorship" bits and "gangsta" rappers
and drug dealers could easily slide into the GOP. Heck, Easy-E, the rapper for
NWA ("**** tha Police") already gave a couple grand at a Presidential
Fundraiser . . .

>9) Have these businessmen take on black liberal Demos and the welfare mess.(
>critizism would be fair here as to why Bush went along with liberal policies
>from the House, this will probably be analyzed by media people before each
>convention like the Demos were)

Crazy enough, it just might work . . . .  B)

>10) Feature companies that promotegrowth along with environmental growth
>along with enviornmental responsibility instead of eliminating jobs because
>responsibility instead of eliminating of EPA policies.  (NASA in Houston
>and Florida as featured on 'Nature' is a good example)

I didn't know that NASA was a company. I thought it was part of the government.
No matter.

Thing is, very few "big business" enterprizes have anywhere near a decent
environmental record. Hell, I could tell you where to find an environmental
report on Ben & Jerry's.

Maybe you want to rewrite that one . . .

>11) Invite scientist(S) & other enviornmental experts who disagree with Gore
>and give their assumptions and conclusions.

Sure, invite Geologists to talk about global warming. Snows over fairly well.

>12) Invite former homosexuals to speak of their former lifestyle and why they
>left.

Well, considering a gay GOP worker is suing the party over discrimination from
the Religious Right, I don't know exactly how good an idea that is right now.

>13) Also invite someone with AIDS to speak and how they got the virus.

See above.

>14) Continue the Quayle attack on Hollywood.  (this would be good in light
>of the recent Newsweek poll on Hollywood and country.)

Sure. Just remember liberals attacked Hollywood first, complaining about
violence. You don't want to get near *THAT*.

>15) Attack MTV and Clinton's use, Ice-T lyrics, and invite police to speak
>about 'Cop Killer, 'KKKB___h' and others.

Youth is a very strong demographic for the GOP, but it will be less so
due to Rock the Vote, MTV and other pushes from the left of the eisle.
I don't think that attacking MTV & Clinton will help him. Actually,
ignoring it is best, considering that there is *NO WAY* Bush or Quayle
could deal with a crowd like that and survive.

For Ice-T, do what you're doing. Don't even wonder why people would be
frustrated enough with police to write songs about it. Don't mention that
Body Count is a *METAL* band, since metal is very conservative. Say rap,
but not too loudly, as I said above.

This reminds me: I've been catching some commentary about Ice-T's Body Count
and one thing specifically bugged me - someone said that in "KKKBitch," Ice
rapes a girl at a KKK rally he's attending in secret. He committs sodomy,
sure, but I don't the situation can be called rape.

>Will says:

>1) Sign an executive order indexing capital gains. This could start a econ-
>omic activity.

>2) Fire Treasury Sec. Brady and replace him with Jack Kemp, tell Kemp to
>end the credit crunch with is primary reason for economy's slowness.

>3) Replace Richard Darman, head of Office of Management and Budget, with
>Minnesota Rep. Vin Weber. (Which I disagree with because he is the one
>who caused Bush to break his 'No-new-taxes' promise which means he agreed
>with the liberal Democratic Congress who create more taxes.)

>4) And George Will says replace Quayle, but not as Carter's personnel
>changes in the summer of 1979 caused so much instability.  "Therefore
>Quayle's replacement must be so exciting that he becomes the topic of
>conversation." - Will   He suggests Colin Powell which would be good
>being recently part of a military operation, and statisfing voters who
>delighted in the pro-military Reagan era.

For 1,2,3 and 4, too much of a flurry would portray Bush as "realizing he's
been

>"Colin Powell would be good for the country and would scramble the political
>equation, perhaps for a generation." - Will  This could checkmate Gore.

If he had any interest. He doesn't. Or at least, that's what he says in
interviews.

>****************************************************************************
>My suggestions:

>1)
>That's the two columists suggestions.  As an added incentive they should
>let Reagan give a keynote address and have him tell of his battle with
>the Democratics in Congress during his administration.  He would perhaps
>get ex-Perot supporters interested in the Republican Party again.

The Democratics? Any particular reason for the extra "ic" on that, or are
you just trying to portray the Dems as more foreign than they are?

>2)
>An attack on Iraq now would be a boost to the country's moral and timed
>well just before the convention.  This would show Bush as giving Iraq time
>to show the UN inspectors all the facilities, and show Bush as being patient
>with Saddam.  (And now with Clinton's blessing just announced) should follow
>through on the 10 day ultimatum.

An attack on Iraq now would be the most obvious "keep me in office" tactic
he could go into. I *HOPE* he's not that desperate.

>3)
>Display the home video shown last night (Wednesday) of Ice-T openly stating
>to kill cops.  This would be good during the speech of the police officers.

I missed that, but then again, TV news sucks. I think he's been avoiding
saying that directly since anyone cared about this. The cop I heard talking
about this, a year ago at Lollapalooza in Minneapolis, said he understood
that it was not meant directly, but then again, he was working security at
a concert, so . . .

>Of course, there will be those who criticise these suggestions, but that is
>all they are, suggestions.  But if you have 'positive' suggestions to add
>that is fine too.  (I am sure there will be enough criticism to fill Madison
>Square Garden.)  So be it.

I tried to be mostly positive, but I don't think I was. Sorry

>Sue Clark

Dave
c/o Other Andy
"Woke up this morning . . .
 A lot of my songs start out that way
 then again, so do a lot of my mornings . . . ."
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