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...riled up about land-use issues? In the debate over the West's natural resources, many of you resorted to what the cowboys used to call fightin' words. "It's time for you left-wing media types to sit down, shut up and stop banging the tree-hugger drum," snapped a South Carolina man. Just as upset was a Louisiana woman who decried "the sickening, arrogant bias of TIME's reporting. The Unabomber is the spiritual brother of the environmentalists of whom you seem so enamored." On the other side of the shoot-out, a man from Bainbridge Island, Wash...
...fact these are such controversial, powder-keg statements that, as we'll see in a minute, Al Gore says them pretty much verbatim in his latest commercial. "Or we have a budget surplus and a deficit in values." Yeah, those are really... um... fightin' words, Dubya. He goes on to defiantly vow to "be bold and decisive, to unite instead of divide" - but really the point here is the approachable, homey candidate that these ads present, as contrasted with the harsh tone of his father's campaigns. It's political restoration via Restoration Hardware...
...Tuesday night at the Democratic convention was a case in point. Look at the roster that straitened circumstances forced the Gore campaign to put on. Union bosses. Jesse Jackson. Bill Bradley. Big ol' red-meat, rabble-rousin', poverty-fightin', national-election-losin' Democrats - the same kind of people Bill Clinton screwed over at the last convention because he could afford to. For Al Gore, this was I-haven't-nailed-down-my-base night. It was for-the-love-of-God-please-don't-vote-for-Ralph Nader night...
...series a hoot to remember but excruciating to relive. But worse, by making Bo and Luke allies with Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane and deputies Enos and Cletus, the movie guts the one aspect of the show that made it more than a cornpone car chase--two good ole boys "fightin' the system like two modern-day Robin Hoods," as the theme song (which the movie has jettisoned) said. The Dukes' eight-cylinder jousts with the corrupt Boss Hogg and his henchmen showed how antiestablishmentarianism had percolated, post-Watergate, into America's most conservative precincts, prefiguring the antigovernment politics...
...sells books, and because no one else much wants to be one. He has the give-'em-hell attitude to excite the Reform party's lunatic fringe, and comes with his own built-in constituency ? a rabid band of anti-abortion, pro-prayer protectionists who are fightin' mad over the Republicans' slow-but-insistent move back to the center under George W. Bush. With a Reform party nod, Buchanan gets a brand-new pan-partisan forum for his populism ? in his third go-round, his act is wearing thin with GOP voters ? and a brand-new war chest. (Thanks...