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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:32:05 -0500
From:         ANTHLAL@UMNACVX.BITNET
Subject:      fresh fruit for rotting vegetables

glad to see the dead kennedys making a comeback on this list.

i think i feel a little woozy...i agree with the great robert sprg00 on
something.  just not for the same reasons.  really.
okay, now that i've got the smelling salts out of my purse...
bill bennett definitely gave the best speech of the night.  why, you ask?
well, two things:  he *is* bill bennett, after all.  guy dated janis joplin
once.  i kinda like big bill.  straightforward kinda guy.  i don't always
agree with him, but you gotta like someone who knows how to debate.  which
brings me to the second point:  bennett made that speech as if he had been
interested in raising the level of discourse in this election.  go figure.
sure, he made inflammatory comments about gays and lesbians, but we
all expected that he would.  at least this time he made some sort of noise
about reasons for not approving of gay marriage and lifestyles from a point of
view that was not solely grounded in "well, because it's just wrong, that's all.
   go read the bible if you don't think so."
bennett has a philosophy background, and you could tell that he'd been reading
a little rousseau before he got there.  i don't know.  let's put it this way:
bennett did not completely appall me, as most of the speakers have (and will).
   so kudos on the night go to bill bennett.
the robertson speech was a travesty, though.  i don't want to talk about it.

i did watch the nomination process itself.  i was hoping for the annual
"home of lincoln" wars, but didn't see much of that.  instead, it was the
"home of bush" dogfight that anyone could have predicted.  i was proud of
kentucky for not saying "the great bluegrass state!  we claim george bush as
a native son since he once stayed in the seelbach when he came to see the
derby!"  this is a nationwide list:  somebody tell me, who was the thug from
rhode island who made their nominating speech?  was it my imagination, or did
he have bodyguards and a chalk-stripe suit?  and that guy from louisiana...huh?
and what's with guam and puerto rico?  i thought they *didn't* want to be states
    in the first place.  or was that all publicity drummed up by "citizens for
nice round numbers" and "the committee to keep us all from replacing our flags"?
bush has an interesting night ahead of him.  there is simply no way he can
be credible if he says he's going to give us a nice big tax cut.  there is no
way he can be credible if he says he's going to whip the economy into shape.
why in the hell would anyone want this job, anyhow?  watch for dan quayle's
speech (or should we, by rights, call it peggy noonan's?).  watch the
amazing danforth emphasize every single word, since he has no idea which word
ought to be emphasized in the first place (footnote:  this is a comment from
al franken, which is hilarious when accompanied by audio).

                 out of the blue, into the black, y'all.       --liese
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