Now the presidential Republican Party is dead. If Gore loses Carville, the only supporter he ll have left is Tipper, the stand-in drummer for the makeshift Grateful Dead. Gore sucked in both Newsweek s Jonathan Alter and the Times Bob Herbert during interviews last week. Displaying his new down-home makeover, he regaled both with a quote from Kris Kristofferson s Me and Bobby McGee. In the words of Janis Joplin, freedom s just another word for nothin left to lose.
Freedom s just another word for nothin left to lose.
Bill Clinton, who s sabotaged Gore s campaign at regular intervals comparing him to Nixon, getting publicly steamed when Gore belatedly criticized his affair with Monica Lewinsky, calling a Times reporter to give tips on the campaign was at it again last Friday in a speech before a Democratic National Committee meeting. This is not an election yet, Clinton told his audience. I mean, the election may be going on in the newspapers every day, but here, in the minds of the American people, they still think we should be drawing a paycheck to work for them. This, of course, is preposterous. Yeah, he s locked up all those establishment super-delegates, but they can change allegiance at any time.