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Top Ten List from the Presidential Campaign Trail
Thomas L. Jipping
Nov. 1, 2000
Sometimes the real story of a campaign is in the small items, the things the
candidates don't mention, the details that almost get skipped.
Here's my top-10 list from the presidential campaign trail.
Number 10. Al Gore questions whether George W. Bush is up to the job of
president because he has only been a governor. Rewind the tape to 1976,
when the Democrats offered former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter to the
nation. He even failed the "What's My Line" test. And then there's former
Arkansas governor Bill Clinton...we won't go there.
Number 9. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says that Al Gore has a "smarmy
streak" and there are "lingering doubts about his ethics" the Washington
Post questioned Gore's "ability to inspire the country" and the Detroit
Free Press said that Gore has "exaggerated too much." These papers endorsed
Gore!
Number 8. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Seattle Times, Portland Oregonian,
St. Paul Pioneer Press, and Las Vegas Review-Journal have all endorsed
George W. Bush. They all had previously endorsed Bill Clinton.
Number 7. Clinton recently told the leftist group People for the American
Way that Americans should vote for Gore because of the judges he would
appoint. Clinton-Gore judges have struck down teen curfews, ruled that
prisons must allow inmates to have porn but that drunks cannot be required
to attend AA, prohibited prayers before school board meetings, said the Boy
Scouts should be forced to have homosexual leaders, and struck down school
vouchers. Does he mean those judges?
Number 6. The Clinton-Gore Department of Education was so badly managed
that it was not even auditable in 1998. Last year it was at least auditable
but failed the audit and is about to fail again. I guess that's what Gore
means by "reinventing" government.
Number 5. Gore said he would not have a "litmus test" for judicial appointments.
But he also said that the "main issue is whether or not the
Roe v. Wade decision [legalizing abortion] is going to be overturned."
Maybe Clinton could help Gore define "litmus test" a little better.
Number 4. Gore says that the federal government is smaller than when he
became vice president and that the military is the strongest it has ever
been. Yet most of the reduction in government has come from the military,
Clinton-Gore's Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman has warned of readiness
problems, and even Democratic Senate incumbents like Virginia's Chuck Robb say the
military is "stretched too thin." Maybe Clinton can help Gore
define "strongest" a little better.
Number 3. The "Political Odds Maker" at Campaigns & Elections magazine says
Bush's odds of winning Texas are 50-to-1 while Gore's odds of winning
Tennessee are 20-to-19.
Number 2. Gore says he will appoint judges who will breathe "deeper
meaning" into the law. Clinton-Gore judges have ruled that students
expelled under a school's zero-tolerance weapons policy can sue the school,
side with criminal defendants more than twice as often as other judges, and
said a state law prohibiting state employees from accessing porn on state computers
is unconstitutional. That's a lot of heavy breathing.
Number 1. Joe Lieberman is troubled by toxic entertainment entering the
minds of children, "the most precious of God's creations," yet has no
problem with scissors and suction tubes entering the skulls of those
children during partial-birth abortions.
Thomas L. Jipping, J.D., is Director of the Free Congress Foundation's
Center for Law & Democracy.
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