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...said, with his head turned down a bit. "I guess I was one of the few million closet Reaganires people too embarrassed to admit before the election that we were going to vote for an old actor, someone the IV news portrayed as a non-intellectual with a perpetual "gee whiz, ain't life grand' grin...
...stepped off Air Force One into a steady rain in Louisville. Mondale chatted with reporters on his campaign plane, pretending to cringe and bite his knuckles when asked if he was nervous. Told that 120 million people around the world were expected to watch the debate, he cracked, "Gee, that's larger than my average crowd...
...Senator and Reagan Friend Paul Laxalt gives him credit for "making significant progress as the ultimate consummate good soldier." But even though Bush has lived in Texas far longer than in his native Connecticut, he cannot escape his Andover-Yale-Skull-and-Bones heritage, nor can he hide his gee-whiz preppie manner. As Laxalt says, "Many conservatives feel that anyone who has been near an Ivy League school is suspect...
Even Cuomo, who has become a party guru with his gospel of gee-whiz goodness, has no record to run on. His year and a half in Albany has been a litany of failure, and his obsession with the 21-year-old minimum drinking age as the family issue is too silly to warrant any serious discussion...
...loaded with a spirit of certitude, the diary is both fascinating and disappointing as a blueprint for action by one of the country's most promising liberal pols. If one manages to wade through pages of irrelevant detail--lots of short, simple sentences, topped off by the gee-whiz exclamation point--one will find a clearer definition of the Democratic raison d'etre than any offered up by milquetoast Walter F. Mondale...