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Isaacs called the 1984 Democratic convention, at which Mondale named Geraldine Ferraro his running mate, the highpoint of her career of involvement with politics...
...Harvard's 14 or so registered members of the GOP, I find the whole business rather entertaining--and as Machiavelli noted wisely, it is a far better thing to be feared than loved. Nevertheless, my heart goes out to my fearful fellow students, with their Mondale-Ferraro memories and their yearning glances at socialist Canada--and so I try, without much success, to point out that a Bush victory in November might not be all that...
...beginning of a new public attitude toward him--one that will make this a new race. Or it might end up being nothing more than a nice moment in a losing campaign, a name on a list in the record books, somewhere on the same page as Geraldine Ferraro's. Either way, it's a choice Al Gore can live with...
There are other and newer considerations. For example: Hormonal balance (it did not work in 1984 with Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro...but that was then), and star quality (either party would go to almost any length to get Colin Powell...
...polls plummeting. "That was my fault in simply not saying 'some,'" he explains. "Had I simply said some religions are a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people, probably not that much would have been made of it." Ventura is peeved that belittlers, like Gary Bauer and Geraldine Ferraro, have dubbed him a bigot. "I looked it up," Ventura says of the word. "It's someone who's intolerable [Jesse's Yogi Berraism] of any other religion but their own. I'm the opposite. I'm tolerant of all religions... I don't care if someone wants...