Yes, and I don t agree with him in all particulars, but that was kind of the cap stone of his career in the Senate. And he s very respected for that. The disagreement comes in this idea of having more taxpayer financing of elections to take the place of private financing. I think if we could get full disclosure, that that would be sufficient to improve the quality of our politics, because what we ve got now is a lot of money apparently coming in as in the case of this Indonesian controversy kind of being hidden under people s names, it s actually coming from somebody else. And neither person seems to hit a lot of people s hot buttons, and I think people scratch their heads and wonder what s wrong with the political process that we seem not to be able to really come up with people who are more attractive to us as candidates, as people, as politicians, as a whole range of things.
Politicians are determined to stay on message.
Don t step on message. Well, we know now what the two messages are. Dole s is the tax cut. Clinton s is to have a tax cut, but protect education, the environment, Medicaid, and Medicare. I ve learned it just about as well as he has.