-Caveat Lector- from: http://politicslive.com/2000/11/29/DLHD/0000-4581-KEYWORD.Missing.asp Click Here: <A HREF="http://politicslive.com/2000/11/29/DLHD/0000-4581-KEYWORD.Missing.asp"> Capitol Hill Blue: When Losing Becomes Better T�</A> ----- When Losing Becomes Better Than Winning Novenber 30, 2000 Jack Mabley Two major political events are taking place in Florida. One is highly visible. The other is the start of the 2002 campaign for Congress and the 2004 campaign for the White House. Some insiders, both Republican and Democratic, the Washington Post reports, are privately pulling for their guy to lose. They're taking the long-term view - lose the battle in 2000 and win the war in 2002 and 2004. In a sense we'll see two winners at the swearing in - the short- term winner and the candidate we call the loser, but who is likely the long-term winner. The new president will face enormous problems. We're overdue for a recession, and he'll be blamed for it, though he may be blameless. The Congress is as evenly divided as the American electorate. I'm melding two names here pending a declared winner. President Gosh will do his level best to bring about harmony and peace and some good legislation. But the feelings are so intense and uncompromising in Congress that even the best skills of the president will be sorely tested. The newly sworn President Gosh will make a bid for harmony by appointing somebody from the other party as secretary of the interior or commerce and maybe even to some White House staff job. But the new president will be the target of the most vicious mud- slinging in recent history. Extremists from both sides will ignore their leader's pleas for patience and tolerance. They'll be convinced that the election was stolen. Another almost inevitable event will be crisis overseas. We have soldiers and sailors and Marines in scores of foreign stations. What if terrorists kill a number of them? Does President Gosh try reason, compromise, threats or send troops? Whatever he does will be questioned by the half of Americans who didn't vote for him. Immediate gratification motivates Bush and Gore. Who wouldn't crave Air Force One, living in the White House, free travel, being saluted by Marines, hearing "Hail to the Chief" wherever he goes? Nice things, but complicated by those doggone congressional and foreign problems and the next election. In 2002 every House seat is up. In the Senate 20 Republican and 14 Democratic seats are on the line. Twenty-four governors will be elected. Historically the party not in the White House wins off-year elections. There's little sign of a deviation in 2002. The New Yorker magazine has a neat view of win-lose: "The lesson concealed inside what has otherwise been a civics course from hell ... is that victory is not always the best outcome in life. Winning is overrated, and the reason is that there is always another way to get what you want. There are many paths upward." I'm guessing that both Gore and Bush would accept losing this year, with an eye on the future. But they are surrounded by consultants and staffers who salivate for those cabinet jobs and White House appointments and ambassadorships. My gut feeling in the midst of this turmoil is that this country desperately needs a leader, a man or woman who commands respect for his or her strength, wisdom, patience, experience and incorruptibility. It's not Gore. It's not Bush. The only prominent public figure who meets most of these criteria is Colin Powell. Others may emerge. � (C) 2000 Chicago Daily Herald. via Bell&Howell Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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