London Times-August 30 2000
Winning is bottom line for Lazio
FROM DAMIAN WHITWORTH IN NEW YORK
TO UNDERSTAND fully the difficulty that Hillary Clinton faces in
trying to launch her political career, one had to see the way in
which the macho baseball star slapped her opponent's bottom.
Rick Lazio was hanging out with the New York Mets, the team he
has supported all his life. He was chatting and joking with Bobby
Valentine, the famously loudmouthed team manager, when he was
honoured with the kind of special moment that New York baseball
fans dream about.
Baseball players are a tactile bunch and one of their trademark
gestures - particularly between a manager and one of his star
players - is the gentle pat on the backside.
Mr Valentine treated Mr Lazio like one of his best sluggers.
"Hey, y'know you look tired," he told the Congressman as his hand
moved casually cheekwards.
Mr Lazio, surrounded by cameramen, looked delighted. "Yeah,
y'know, you gotta keep goin'." Pat-pat. "We gonna put these caps
on, or are you worried you'll mess yer hair up?" Patty-pat-pat.
Mr Lazio's trademark boyish grin was wider than ever. And the
point was made; Mr Lazio is a real New Yorker who gets a warm
reception at baseball games.
Mrs Clinton, a recent arrival in New York via Illinois, Arkansas
and Washington, cannot go to a New York ballgame, let alone have
her bottom patted there (even if anyone was brave enough to try).
Her hamfisted attempts to adopt the Mets' archrivals, the New
York Yankees, have earned her ridicule. She invited the team to
the White House, was photographed looking uncomfortable in a
Yankees cap and even said she had "always been a Yankees fan",
when everyone knew she has always been a Chicago Cubs fan.
This out-of-towner status has become one of Mr Lazio's chief
lines of attack. The other prong of his offensive is simply to
carry on not being Mrs Clinton. There is a hard core of people
who will never vote for the First Lady - her negative rating
remains solidly around 45 per cent - and Mr Lazio, a 42-year-old
Italian-American with a conspicuously happy marriage and an
impish smile, is counting on shifting that number up enough to
clinch the race.
To that end, he is as happy to play hard ball as he is to be seen
following baseball. This week, for example, claiming that Mrs
Clinton had launched a negative attack on his record, he aired
what looked very much like a negative television advert, which
concluded: "Hillary Clinton: you just can't trust her."
Mrs Clinton's campaign screamed: "Hypocrisy." On the baseball
field, Mr Lazio chuckled - "Clinton campaigns seem to survive on
taking the cheap hit," he said - before retiring to the owner's
box, where a "Hillary doormat" was on the threshold. It bore the
legend "I've always been a Yankee fan" above a picture of Mrs
Clinton. Mr Lazio wiped his feet extravagantly. "I've got to get
this dirty," he said.
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