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...precocious seven-year-old noticed, the Clinton-Lazio debate in Buffalo last Wednesday was a nasty piece of business, with Clinton portraying Lazio as Newt Gingrich's house elf and Lazio assailing Hillary's character and trustworthiness at every turn. But Lazio just laughed off the child's question and said, "We were talking about our different ideas...
...offered a lame defense of her disastrous 1994 health-care-reform plan, Lazio scored by saying that "a New Yorker would never have made that proposal," neatly tying her health-care problem to her carpetbagger problem. He had a nice line ready for her attempts to yoke him to Gingrich--"Mrs. Clinton, you of all people shouldn't try to make guilt by association"--but delivered it like a dinner-theater Hamlet, all portent and no grace. Then his aggressive stage direction got the best of him, and he went in for some guilt-by-association...
...they carry a special concern for the moral climate of the country. This, combined with a distrust of Washington, makes them targets for Bush and his pitch for a "fresh start." They swung heavily to Clinton in 1996, when he married values and economics by making things like the Gingrich-proposed curbs in Medicare spending a test of values. If Gore too can and combine values and economics, he'll pull these latter-day Erin Brockoviches into his camp...
...there. The New York Times points out that the sale was questioned by environmentally oriented government departments such as the EPA and the Fish and Wildlife Service, but that the DOE went ahead under pressure to meet a congressional deadline for the sale. To be sure, it was Newt Gingrich's Republican revolutionaries who revived plans to sell Elk Hills back in 1995, and they congratulated themselves over its sale as a vindication of the Reagan legacy...
...uses internally to describe what Bush is selling, is not a particularly revolutionary product. It lets you clean house without tearing it down. When Bush was running symbolically against Bill Clinton, the message seemed to work. Bush was a new kind of Republican--which meant he wasn't Newt Gingrich, and he wouldn't shut down the government or open the orphanages. And he exuded a freshness, optimism and tolerance that voters found appealing...