Word: whitmans
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...Probably not enough kudos, however, to keep black Oklahoma congressman J. C. Watts on the running-mate list. And speaking of racially based calculations: another hopeful just struck off the veep roster, one supposes, is Christine Todd Whitman, though for different reasons. The New Jersey governor sunk further into her own racial-profiling mess when a photo of her, gleefully frisking a black man on one of her ride-alongs with the cops, hit the papers Tuesday in full glory...
...good about coming to the meetings, he's very good about having us to the White House and having the Cabinet members there," sniped New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman. "That's all very nice, but what we wanted is more action and less of the big government things." Added Virginia's Gov. James Gilmore, another oft-mentioned veep candidate: "His Environmental Protection Agency has been aggressive to the point of really being very, very offensive, almost...
...names in the guest book at State College, Pa., reads like GOP veep-finder Dick Cheney's legal pad - Tom Ridge, Tommy Thompson, John Engler, George Pataki, Jim Gilmore, Christy Whitman. All are popular, moderate and Republican. For Gore and the Democrats, there's just one: California's Gray Davis. And he doesn't want...
...Walt Whitman is one of the favorite writers of Norman Podhoretz, the longtime editor of Commentary magazine, who has written a new book called "My Love Affair With America." Podhoretz' subtitle is: "The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative." I admire Podhoretz immensely for the clarity, decency, and, shall we say, ruthlessness of his thought, but "cheerful" is not the first word he brings to my mind. A few years ago at a dinner in a highly WASP old club in New York, I watched Podhoretz sink his teeth (figuratively speaking) into a supercilious liberal's calf...
...Podhoretz has been a brilliant controversialist, speaking from the left and, for the last 30-odd years, from the right. He has defended America against attacks from both left and right. He has always sought, by means of his writing and editing, to do what Whitman dreamed of doing with his poem - sort out the mess, make it coherent, whole...