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...Some Republicans deserve to have a gender gap," says Molinari. "but not Bob Dole." It was a teeny preview of her big night this week,when the 38-year-old is scheduled to deliver the convention's keynote speech. Dole's pick of the pro-choice and pro-gun-control legislator rankled his right flank, but Dole knew what he was getting: charm, energy, even some star power as a Friend of Newt's. Her talent is partly rooted in her genes: she inherited her father's Staten Island seat in a 1990 special election. Her stature was sealed when...
Representative Susan Molinari, the keynote speaker of the Republican National Convention, comes to the podium after providing fresh proof that the behavior of American politicians is not affected in the slightest by ridicule. Officeholders who are confronted with stories of marijuana use in college, as Representative Molinari was after being invited to deliver the keynote, still describe what they were doing with the dreaded weed not as smoking or using but as "experimenting...
...here we are, in the summer of 1996, with Susan Molinari--someone who was barely out of college when politicians began to describe collegiate pot smoking as experimentation--saying, "I did experiment with marijuana." She says she did it "less than a handful of times." She says that "looking back on it, it was the wrong thing to do." Evidently the guy with the Fu Manchu mustache still hadn't graduated...
...hasten to say I don't care whether Susan Molinari smoked pot in college. I say this as someone who, being closer in age to Bob Dole than to Susan Molinari, has passed blithely through successive national crazes for marijuana and white wine and Perrier water and microbeers without wavering for a moment in a lifelong loyalty to Scotch whisky...
...people old enough to remember Tojo don't care, why does someone like Molinari hand out this tired malarkey about "experimenting" with marijuana? Because it has been certified as the formula that will put the issue to rest...