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Even the most casual readers of Philip Roth's fabulously inventive novels, those slyly tangled weavings of fiction and autobiography, can get some sense that the author might not make an ideal mate. An unforgettable lover, perhaps; a witty dinner companion, absolutely. But Roth, as Alexander Portnoy's psychoanalyst might put it, clearly has some "issues" about women...
...stands deserve at least as much attention as his falls. Dole's plan, whether the candidate really believes in it or not, is the classic "less government, lower taxes" proposal Republicans have been advocating for years. Yet it ignores the new ideas of people such as his own running-mate Jack Kemp and the attractive critique of government involvement developed by writers such as Marvin Olasky in his book,The Tragedy of American Compassion. Unfortunately, at a time when the Republican Party is home to so much innovation on the state and local levels, Citizen Dole is as much...
Ross Perot has presented himself as even more of a joke this year than he did four years ago. He couldn't even get an elected official in the whole United States to be his vice-presidential running mate, and instead chose a radical and misguided economist named Pat Choate who trades in tariffs and isolationism. The "American Revolution" that Perot launched at Valley Forge makes a mockery of legitimate attempts to forge a third party and offers us nothing but demagoguery...
...overstated. Perot nonetheless has paid his coauthor--well, not the ultimate, or even the penultimate, but maybe the antepenultimate compliment. After other, bigger names, such as former Senator David Boren of Oklahoma and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, refused to sign on as Perot's vice-presidential running mate, the billionaire turned to Choate, who accepted. Said Choate, the son of a sharecropper from tiny Maypearl, Texas: "It's sort of a Cinderella story...
...battle, he chose a bearded vice-presidential nominee. It's been nearly 90 years since America has had a bewhiskered or stubbly-faced Vice President. Indiana Senator Charles Fairbanks served four years as Teddy Roosevelt's Veep. When he attempted to reclaim the office as Charles Evans Hughes' running mate, the two men lost the 1916 election by a whisker...