Word: mud
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...religious right. Buchanan, set to collect $12 million in federal funds as a reward for Perot's two consecutive over-5 percent showings in 1992 and 1996, will doubtless run an entertaining campaign, screaming to be let into the debates and slinging his witty brand of populist mud into the mainstream fray. He will pray to his big, intrusive God that George W. Bush chooses a pro-choice running mate, because with Nader working the unions, the only table scraps left are disaffected far-righties - and even those are a long shot...
...could be dangerous because in the long run he could find himself besieged by these factions. Even they're pretty insignificant on the Palestinian street, they can throw mud at Arafat and turn public opinion against him. But the real opposition about which he has to be concerned - Hamas, Islamic Jihad and to a lesser extent the Popular Front - are staying away from Camp David. And these groups can embarrass Arafat by continuing to attack Israeli targets...
Kerrey and Gore would have to compose earlier differences - on Social Security reform, for example, and on that ugly business about some of Gore's people in New Hampshire supposedly kicking mud on Kerrey and calling him "a cripple." But in politics, antipathies may be temporary. Once in 1990 I sat in Senator Al Gore's office in Washington and asked him what he thought of Bill Clinton of Arkansas. Gore sneered: "Clinton hasn't got a clue." Kerrey, a lighter, funnier, and infinitely more authentic man than Gore - and a war hero, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...should not be squeamish. In my next column, I will discuss a presidential campaign much dirtier than this one promises to be - a race that, after all the mud had been slung, produced a very good president...
...year old chemist was halfway across the world in Penang, Malaysia talking up investors for his company, Integrated Electronics. Investors were getting nervous and now, on a narrow dirt side road outside the city, his car came to a grinding halt, stuck in the mud...