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And
as might be expected, Bush improved on his performance in the first
debate, being more at ease in the “roundtable” format and
exhibiting more confidence. Gore,
by contrast, successfully caricatured as a bully from his
overbearing demeanor in Debate One, came across as timid and panty-waisted.
But
Bush supporters, while exhaling with relief that their man hasn’t
tripped badly in either debate, still can’t rest easy following
last night’s fracas. Gore
and the Democrats are dangerous opponents and clever; they are not
above or beneath anything which will secure for their candidate his
“rightful” coronation as Billa-bub’s liar apparent.
Gore himself must be “feeling his own pain” (and
frustration) at coming across in Debate One as a pompous
know-it-all, and in Debate Two as an overly tepid promise-spouting
martinet. Gore is a
member of the most politically shrewd Administration, Party, and
mouthpieces ever cobbled together to do harm.
He is not going to let this last shot at the Big Prize slip
from his grasp without a down and dirty balls-kicking and
hair-pulling scramble. Gore,
just as he twisted his extreme anti-gun message into moderation last
evening, Gore will be double-barrel loaded for Bush next Tuesday.
One can only hope and suppose viewers will see yet another
unfinished yet heavily varnished version of Al Gore, National Debate
Twit. Will the real Al Gore please tip over? And will both candidates please sharpen their cleats?
No More Santa -
Polar-Trajectory Missiles Aplenty
Goddanmit
George: Gore did it again last night, impossibly making several
competing priorities his “number one priority.”
When are you going to point out this pandering bullshit? And
there was Al Gore Enviro-twit, scaring the living shit out of
as-yet-unborn Santa-believers by saying that in 50 years, the North
Pole will be melted away. What
an ass! Even the “paper of record” New York Times, which
initially reported the dubious notion of a melting North Pole, had
to correct itself and say that the reported science was totally
unscrutinized and probably wrong.
But
technological progress in bad parts of the world make it likely that
2- and 3-stage ballistic missiles will be heading our way, bearing
gifts of nuclear, and chemico-bio warheads.
Bush
partisans might take heart that their man is now being perceived as
being “on a roll” of sorts, and that if he can still further
improve going into the final debate next Tuesday, he will be
glad-handing and jaywalking down Pennsylvania Avenue come January
20, 1001. But don’t
count on this Saturday stroll.
George
Bush did not score as decisive a victory as some are exulting.
Bush did well and certainly better than “super-debater”
Al Gore. But Bush had
better not sit back as he did following the GOP convention and let
Al regain his dorkball wits. Bush
has cuffed Gore up a little, he is backing him up, but he needs to
put and keep Gore on the ropes this week, and then punch the Big
Twitbag Liar to the canvas next Tuesday.
We can look forward next week to some real blood, it will be
a eye-gouge and knee-groin affair, and frankly Gore has the edge
here, unless Bush can keep his cool and come across above the filthy
flinging fray. (From a
“debate format” perspective, perhaps allowing each candidate
some pepper-spray and bullwhips might work.
And as always, the loser is summarily shot directly following
the debate.)
If
the polls start going Bush’s way, you can bet that Al, seeing his
last real shot at getting into the Oval Office’s exalted Lewinsky
Chair, will stop at nothing to tear down Bush in hopes of hail-marying
out the election. Please
polls, open up for Bush, just to provoke a desperate Al debate
performance.
Debate
Two was mild - the opening foreign-policy discussions saw Gore and
Bush largely agreeing. This
tameness plays into Bush’s hands.
The talk largely centered around the notion of the
military’s role in “nation-building” – deploying into
trouble spots and then staying as long as it takes for the locals to
stabilize a government and run their own affairs.
Gore tends to think this can be a military’s
responsibility. Bush
disagrees with using the United States armed forces this way,
insisting instead that the military should do one thing and do it
well: fight and win wars. After
the military has done their jobs, it would be a matter of local and
diplomatic and civilian authorities to sort winners and losers and
mop up the blood and guts.
Bush
did mention missile defense, just a mere mention that whetted a
rabid ABM-supporter’s chops but left little for the tummy.
Goddamnit! When
is someone going to grab this issue by the nutsack and lead the
American people to safety from blackmail and third world nuclear
threat?
Don’t you fire me!
I’m GAY!
As
expected, Gore could only repeat his pandering from Debate One.
Bush was able to expand into the foreign policy arena with
some success, and made some moderate and well-chosen points on gun
control. Bush was
at his very best when he said that “gays and lesbians” should be
entitled to the same rights as everyone else, and not “special
rights.” Gore by
contrast wants to pass laws that will make it illegal for companies
to fire somebody because they’re “gay or lesbian.”
One
can foresee the incredible advantage such a law gives to
sub-standard gay workers: a manager would be afraid to terminate
such a worker for fear on an inevitable lawsuit.
Thus the private sector would be forced to subsidize
substandard gay workers. Bush
answered in effect, no business would fire any productive worker
regardless of any perceived “minority status.”
And Bush is right – very few businesses are so homophobic
that they would not hire and vigorously retain valuable worker
regardless of their sexual activities or any other reason short of
criminal behavior.
Bush
takes a positive privacy-oriented approach.
Gore prefers the negative: businesses would be forced to
carry substandard gay or lesbian workers for fear of lawsuits and
public approbation. In
effect, gays and lesbians would have special protections and rights. Now that’s a real incentive to be “gay” even if
you’re not! Me
personally, as soon as I get an inkling my boss was thinking of
canning me for something as frivolous as me not performing the job
I’m paid to do, I’d report to work dressed as a trampy broad.
Don’t put this past me.
I’d alert gay groups ACT-UP and Lambda to rally to my
transvestite defense, and dare
my boss to fire me on pain of lawsuit and bad Op-ed brickbats in the
New York Times.
Towards
the end of the debate, an overconfident and relaxed Bush let some of
his own innate and annoyingly Gorish cockiness show through.
Bush will be wise to alter this posture forthwith.
Just as a fatuous Gore had his nuts cut off following the
first debate for being such a spastic and pushy boob, such outcry
could be turned against a suddenly perceived “bully” Bush.
The media would like nothing better than to parrot such a
catchy irony. Fortunately,
Bush has a counterbalancing geniality, which tamps down perceptions
of arrogance.
During
the minor dust-up at the end where Gore was slamming Bush’s Texas
record and Bush was highlighting Gore’s lying, Gore admitted “I
made some mistakes on some details” even uttering the word
“sorry” (which his President never did!). Why didn’t Bush
point out that Gore is considered one of the most detail-oriented
policy-spouting wonkheads in politics?
And Gore made a “mistake” with “a few details?”
Come on!! That
defense is a wet paper bag!
Victim Hillary –
And Bye-bye Billa
One
final note about debates and debate spin.
Rick Lazio took a major media black-eye for being so bold as
to merely approach Hillary Rodham’s podium and in effect show her
a piece of paper during their first debate. It wasn’t a bad tactic, but the outcry against Rick
following the debate was cacophonous – poor wittle Hillary Rodham
had her “personal space” invaded by bully Rick!
Ever the shrewy chameleon, Hillary quickly adopted her always
successfully deployed “victim” cloak.
We all saw how in the second Lazio/Rodham debate, just as Al
Gore last night backed way off against Bush, Lazio put back on the
kid gloves and let Hillary control and dominate their exchanges.
Against Hillary Rodham, you NEVER put on velvet gloves.
Against that terrible frozen-feature face you NEVER cease
looking for a way to crack it with a rhetorical iron fist that will
send the carpetbagging self-entitled bitch trouncing back from
wherever it is (Illinois? Arkansas?
Washington D.C.? Cahppaqua?) she comes from.
One would’ve thought Lazio would beat Rodham handily in
this race. Then again,
one supposes that a majority of New Yorkers aren’t the biggest
bunch of self-centered, pot-eyed, and turd-brained bunch of
political assholes from any state. And
yet they are. “Big
Time!”
Both
in New York, and nationally, we need more partisanship, not less.
We need name-calling and even outright slander and libelous
commentary and tossed veggies from all candidates for all offices.
How else, otherwise, to tell the candidates apart?
Yes George Bush’s early adult coke-use should be fair game
– who knows maybe he still toots?
And yes, every one of Al Gore’s casual and asinine lies
should be held up for ridicule and debasement, because of course, he
still lies. “Big Time!”
If
we suppose that Hillary Rodham wins New York, and Gore loses
nationally, where does this leave B.J. Clinton? He will now be playing second fiddle to his wife the new
Hollywood/
Gotham
celeb, barging from NY to DC to LA.
And Bill’s boy-apparent Al Gore will be banished to the
political wastelands and may even have to go live in Tennessee.
With Hillary safely engaged in “the nation’s business,”
Billa-bub has a free hand and zip to head for his natural home,
Hollywood, to get all the gash he wants (and in L.A. that will be a
LOT.) Kind of a
reverse Ronald Reagan, who, taking a more statesmanlike course,
started in Hollywood and finished in the Oval Office.
As
usual, and maddeningly so for his detractors, Billa-bub wins
whatever happens. Is it
pure envy and grudging broadslamming admiration to say I can’t
stand the guy? You bet
it is! I am pissed because in order for me to keep my job after an
egregious workplace violation, I have to dress like a woman and
scream “homo discrimination!”
Not that I mind, but Billa gets to keep his job even after
getting a Whale of a Hum-diddly-doo right in his Oval Office chair!
And while making policy phone calls, to boot!
How cool is that?
The
only winner in this upcoming election is really and truly Billa-bub
Jeff Clinton, pussy-master extraordinaire, and the most accomplished
liar and dame-disser who ever unzipped on this earth.
It is ripe horseshit that Billy Blow came up from hard times
in Arkansas, the kid then and the kid now has lived one of the
easiest lives in the 20th Century.
His well-connected horse-betting and streak-haired momma
greased his skids all through childhood.
His powergrubbing Stalinesque “wife” gave him all the
pecker-privileges and bare-ass cover he wanted from then on, no
questions necessary. There
is no punishment too great for Billa-bub, and that is why,
ironically, he suffers none. Such
depravity on earth calls into question the entire “fear the
lord” concept. |
