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...future may enjoy replaying the fiasco of the Thomas confirmation hearings: primal, defining national theater. The drama had layers -- legal, political, cultural, racial, ethical, sexual. The hearings were a bad moment for middle-aged white men. The Senate Judiciary Committee sat arrayed in its Caucasian glory, like Muppets of Bomfog and Claghorn, each Senator more confused and senescent and miserable and lost to pomposity than the last -- a row of flushed egos that said goodbye to dignity and intelligence sometime during the Eisenhower years...
...whole election process to two nationwide votes. Such a plan would eliminate local issues, however, and would put more emphasis than ever on the oversimplified approaches that work best on television. Political Consultant David Garth believes that a national primary would lead to what "Nelson Rockefeller used to call BOMFOG-the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God -and never get into issues...
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