Clinton scandal

pms laflame at mindspring.com
Sun Jan 3 09:17:19 PST 1999



>But don't expect too much from Al. If Al has to fight for the nomination
>in 2000 against Bill Bradley and a few other elite favorites, he will have
>to suck up hard to labor and other liberals to hold the nomination. But
>if he is given the nomination as an incumbent, he will be free to shore up
>his base with much more Clinton-like centrist moves.
>
>Politically, I have always thought a weakened but popular Clinton was our

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>best bet for the next two years. He'd be too weak to overcome liberal
>filibusters in the Senate but popular enough to blunt any ideological
>steamroller from the Right. And he would have to be somewhat nice to
>liberals since his boy Al would suffer retribution if he pissed people off
>too much.
>
>Generally, I thought we were entering this year in a great position, with
>the Right intellectually bankrupt and politically fragmented, even as our
>forces were working together better than they have for years.
>
>So a prostitution scandal just looks like a loser to me for our side, if
>only because it will eat up public oxygen that we should be using to focus
>on progressive issues.
>
>--Nathan Newman
>

Nathan, you are brilliant. Couldn't have thought it better myself. Wanna start a consulting/polling firm together?

Truly impressed, Paula



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