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Another obstacle in Lott's way is his own propensity to blurt things out that he'd be better off keeping to himself--what a G.O.P. Senator described last week as "Trent's foot-in-mouth disease." It struck last summer, when Lott compared homosexuality to alcoholism and kleptomania, and again in mid-December, when he attacked the President's motives for launching air strikes on Iraq. Then it appeared one more time last week, when Lott went public with the outline of his plan for a streamlined impeachment trial without warning anyone on his staff, clearing it with...
...movie makes clear, any politician who tries this at home will die. Not to worry. The last thing anyone in Washington wants is to blurt the basic fact of elective office--that you buy it and pay off the debt in daily installments of breaks to special interests. In real life, those few good men and women who truth-talk are quickly marginalized. Senator John McCain, fighting first for campaign-finance reform and now against the cigarette makers, is presumed by the public to be a great candidate for President but equally presumed to be unable to get his party...
...moment. Was there ever a second when one of them was shocked by the horror of it all and said, "No, we can't do this. Have we lost our minds?" only to be talked back into it by the other? Did they hear a cry or blurt out, "It's a boy"? Afterward, they slept for a few hours and took the car to the White Glove Car Wash...
...course, traditions die hard. Even as a self-proclaimed gender policewoman, I still tend to blurt out "Freshman Week" or "Freshman Dean's Office" if I am not being careful. Dean Lewis does have a point that "first-year" might sound a little awkward, and that there might be a better substitute to the offending word. Or maybe "freshman" is just one of those words in the "who would want to be one anyway?" category--like "garbageman" and "hitman"--that even the most strident p.c. advocates are content to leave alone...
...doesn't get petulant, the way Steve Forbes did last week when the other candidates ganged up on him. It reminds me of my first up-close and personal impression of her during the '92 campaign, when it was possible to share a van and chat. She would blurt out things like "For goodness' sake, you can't be a lawyer if you don't represent banks," which worked in its way for Willie Sutton but is not wife-of-candidate speak. Airbrushed later, that remark contained the seeds of all that would come after, a desire to have things...