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What's sad is that Hart is a bright guy who could make worthy contributions to American political life. And it will be fun watching Hart play insurgent, so long as he doesn't bring any mortal embarassment to his party. If he comes through on his pledge to run a no-frills campaign and succeeds in shaking up what is now a stultifying and uninspiring nominating process, more power to him. And to everyone...
Unfortunately, Hart shouldn't--and hopefully will not--be president of the United States. The character defects that he displayed in the Donna Rice incident and those that emerged in its aftermath rule out Hart's ever sitting in the Oval Office. He still thinks the press alone is to blame for his problems, that his travails reflect not at all on himself. He's displayed no sign of a new understanding of himself or of his time that make him worthy of redemption. Let him write on policy-issues to his heart's content. Just...
GAIL SHEEHY caught a lot of flak, much of it deserved, for a long profile of Hart she wrote this summer in Vanity Fair. Sheehy went on and on with cheap pop psychological insights into Hart's upbringing while trying to answer the question "Why would Gary Hart want to sleep with a woman like Donna Rice?" She cited his stern mother and their even sterner Church as the source of his incessant womanizing...
...Republic (and I ungracefully repeat here), it's not so surprising that a man might want to fool around with an attractive woman like Ms. Rice. You don't have to have grown up in a repressive environment to want to do that. What is repulsive about Hart is that as a presidential front-runner he was hanging around with a crowd no decent man should be part of, crazy mother...
What was valuable in Sheehy's piece, and got overlooked in criticisms of her second-rate psychoanalysis, was her reporting on how Hart and Rice met in the slimy underworld of South Florida. Their paths crossed on a party boat frequented by drug dealers and other high rollers. (Rice, in fact, lived for two years with one of the biggest drug dealers in South Florida, a man now in jail on a long sentence...