Next to him, Gore seems tinny and shrill, inauthentic, childish, dishonest . Clinton may be a liar, but Gore is a fraud. And, sadly for Gore, the American people can adjust to a liar but cannot stomach a fraud. As any Leave It to Beaver expert will tell you, Eddie Haskell had a certain eerie charm. The other Margaret on the national scene, Hillary Clinton, is just as lost as Gore.
All drunken louts leave devastation in their wake.
But it cost the House, the Senate, about a dozen governorships, and the soul of the Democratic party. Dad, happy, besotted, snores blissfully on the couch. The son breaks into Dad's liquor cabinet and takes the family car out for a joyride. That's the way it is in dysfunctional families, and that's the way it is in Campaign 2000. Send it along.