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...Robert Dornan "B-1 Bob" went ballistic after narrowly losing his House seat in Orange County, California, to Hispanic financial analyst Loretta Sanchez. Threatening to sue her for election fraud, Dornan called Sanchez a "liar" and said "the whole thing stinks to high heaven." Of course, sour grapes were to be expected from the former fighter pilot who once grabbed a fellow Congressman by the collar and called him a "draft-dodging wimp." Sanchez's campaign manager, John Shallman, spoke for many when he said of Dornan, "He's been, and continues to be, a national disgrace...
...particularly crucial in California and also in Florida and Arizona, two states that went Democratic for the first time in decades largely because of the Latino vote. The emergent political power of Latinos was evident in the race for California's 46th district, where Loretta Sanchez defeated Rep. Bob Dornan, known for his rhetorical bombast and unreconstructed xenophobia. The Republicans' attempts to restrain immigration and to cut back health and educational benefits for legal immigrants did not win them favor among Latino (or Asian) voters. Unless the Republican Party can purge itself of its recurrent tendencies toward nativism and xenophobia...
REPRESENTATIVE BOB DORNAN G.O.P. firebrand "B-1 Bob" gets blitzed by Dem Latina foe in still too-close-to-call vote...
Extremists in both parties either narrowly escaped or were forced into the witness-protection program in order to win. California's loopy "B-1 Bob" Dornan, who loves to brag about having piloted every bomber in the Air Force fleet, was in a dead heat with Loretta Sanchez in his increasingly Hispanic Southern California district. Even Jesse Helms, North Carolina's conservative firebrand, started sounding more tolerant about abortion, touted his ability to direct federal aid to his state after Hurricane Fran left $5 billion in damage and boasted of his success in protecting the state's tobacco and peanut...
...good to be President (see Senator Richard Lugar). You can also be too bad to be President, and as a consequence, have the first real scare in your congressional race in years (see Congressman "B-1 Bob" Dornan). And you can be too phony to be President (see Lamar! in the shirt playing the piano...