-Caveat Lector- <http://www.originalsources.com/OS11-00MQC/11-3-2000.1.html> The Bush DUI Story Was Brought to the Democratic National Committee It Comes Down to "Who's Telling the Truth - Bush or Gore?" By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources (www.originalsources.com) November 3, 2000 Yesterday, faxes mysteriously appeared on the desks of reporters telling them about a DUI arrest back on September 4, 1976 of George W. Bush. A little bit of sleuthing soon revealed, as the Washington Post put it, that a "lawyer who was delegate to the Democratic National Convention, had a copy of the docket" at the convention. Peddling it, perchance? Fox News broke the story nationally and it promptly became the major topic of discussion on talk shows. Endless discussion followed. Will the revelation derail the Bush juggernaut? Not likely. In the first place, having too many beers and driving too slowly hardly compares with the lying to a grand jury as Bill Clinton did, smoking pot, an illegal substance, as Al Gore did during the same period or leaving a body in your car at the bottom of a pond on Chappaquidick Island, as Senator Ted Kennedy did in 1969. And, secondly, this story is so obviously timed for political damage that it's apt to make some voters mad at the Democrats, not George W., who, after all, had said much earlier in the campaign that he had drinking problems and that he quit drinking 14 years ago when he turned 40. If, as I keep saying, this election is all about trust, what impact will the Bush DUI have on the electorate? Does that story mean we can't trust George Bush? Well, George W. Bush has told us the truth all along. He SAID he had problems with drinking. And, Calvin Bridges the arresting officer 24 years ago, said in a telephone interview that he recalled "driving home from work after midnight and spotting a car slipping briefly onto the shoulder before getting back on the road." The driver was George W. Bush and he failed a road sobriety test. He registered 0.10 blood-alcohol level -- the legal limit at the time, Bridges said. He also talked about Bush's attitude saying, "The man was, and I say this without being facetious, a picture of integrity. He gave no resistance. He was very cooperative." Bridges said Bush spent about 90 minutes in custody. He said he was contacted Thursday night by two Bush aides, including spokesman Dan Bartlett, and asked if he would accept a telephone call from a reporter. On the other hand Gore campaign spokesman Chris Lehane said yesterday, "This is just not something the Gore campaign is involved with in any shape, way or form. It's not something we would engage in." When the story first broke it was claimed that "two Portland, Maine, television stations said their reporters came across the incident while covering an unrelated arson case yesterday and overheard hallway conversations about the arrest. Reporters for the stations, WPXT-TV and WCSH-TV, pursued the story and found several documents confirming the Sept. 4, 1976, arrest, as well as the name of the arresting officer." Just 5 days before the election? Is that story true? Apparently not. It turns out that a Democrat lawyer from Maine brought the story to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. The Gore campaign obviously had had the story at least a couple of months. In fact, it turns out that the story came out of the Democratic National Convention which appears to have been released five days before the election. Does the Gore campaign really think the American people are so stupid that they will conclude they can't trust George W. because 24 years ago he had too many beers one night? Are we all supposed to forget, as Newsweek reporter Bill Turque wrote, that Al Gore and John Warnecke "would gather to talk politics late into the night, fueled by Grateful Dead albums and the high-grade marijuana that Warnecke imported from the West Coast. 'We'd get stoned and talk about what we'd do if we were president.'" "Warnecke and two other close friends from Gore's Nashville days say Gore was an enthusiastic recreational user, smoking sometimes as often as three or four times a week: afterhours at Warnecke's house, on weekends at the Gore farm or canoeing on the Caney Fork River. Andy Schlesinger, a former Tennessean reporter says that in the first few months after Gore returned from South Vietnam in 1971, he smoked with him 'at least a dozen times' at the Warneckes'. The partying continued, according to Warnecke and a Gore friend who declined to be named, until Gore ran his first House race in 1976." "He continued: 'Al Gore stoned was a mix of expansiveness, melancholy and paranoia, friends recall. 'These were low times,' Schlesinger says." Somehow, with all the scandals that have rocked the White House in the last 7 years, I can't see the "too many beers" story changing many votes. I also doubt that the "too many joints" story about Al Gore will change many votes for Al Gore. What is going to change votes is the voters' conclusions about who's telling them the truth and those who are undecided may very well swing to George W. Bush because he not only admitted the story was true but added, "I'm not proud of it." All while the Gore campaign is acting like it "doesn't know a thing" about it. 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