2000 | Whoops & Squawks

Alan Keys is “the only candidate on either side who appears to be telling you exactly what he thinks all the time, and he’s made reporters on television afraid to tangle with him. They can tell he doesn’t particularly respect them; if there’s a mental shootout, he doesn’t fear running out of ammo.” --Peggy Noonan, writing in the January 26, 2000, edition of the Wall Street Journal.

“Gridlock is the most beautiful word in our language (during an election year).” --George Will, on ABC’s This Week, Sunday February 13.

Here’s Someone Who’s Not Afraid To Call A Thing What It Is Department--Ann Coulter, a columnist writing in Human Events August 4, described Sick Willie as “a white trash horndog President who treats women like ashtrays. . .”

We Don't. . .

"We believe that Mrs. Clinton is capable of growing beyond the ethical legacies of her Arkansas and White House years."--From a New York Times editorial supporting Hillary Clinton's candidacy for election as U.S. Senator from New York. (November, 2000)

Epictetus Would Size It Up Exactly This Way

“We’re all connected,” says Carol Frances Likins, a fifth grade school teacher from Lost Angeles who was out demonstrating (at the Democratic national convention) yesterday. “The reason the Cuban people have been suffering from a U.S. blockade is the same reason why my fifth-graders have no social studies books, and there’s so much police brutality, and Mumia is on death row, and health care has been cut.” (The Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2000).

“After watching the long-toothed liberal monsters cavorting around Los Angeles like Hieronymus Bosch figures, one finds it hard to believe that Gore can pull off the same trick.”--Jonah Goldberg, editor of National Review Online, writing in the Sept. 11 issue of the magazine in an article titled “Liberals From the Lost Lagoon,” in which he expressed doubt that Al Gore can benefit his party anywhere near the way Sick Willie did.

“Clinton’s real legacy is going to be what he did to everyone else.” --Wladyslaw Pleszczynski, executive editor of the American Spectator, writing in the magazine’s September, 2000 edition.

“There is nothing this man won’t do. He is immune to shame.” --Jesse Jackson, present-day ardent defender of Sick Willie, speaking of Clinton in 1992.

“Honesty puzzles the flexible majority of men.” --Author Florence King, in a review of a biography, An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland, printed in the September, 2000, issue of National Review magazine.

"If foreplay on the hustings becomes an instant tradition, Tipper will be remembered as the first political wife to be forced into the role of a Zola heroine, a woman aroused but left unsatisfied, the Therese Raquine of the whistle stop, consumed by pelvic furor as she gazes out over a sea of cheese-wedge hats in the middle of the night somewhere in Wisconsin.” --Author and conservative troublemaker Florence King, writing in the December 4, 2000, edition of National Review about Weird Al’s ostentatiously public kissing of his wife at the convention and on the campaign trail.

“In 1996, that profound philosopher and NBA great Charles Barkley was asked why he supported Bob Dole. The questioner prefaced his question by saying, “Don’t you know that Dole is in favor of the rich?” Barkley’s response: “I am rich, you asshole!”--Black author Ward Connnerly, writing in the December 18, 2000, issue of National Review.

“The black vote will remain captive to the Democratic Party as long as black people see themselves as victims and view the Democrats as the party of “civil rights.” Until black people lose their vulnerability to false and exploitative appeals to these (bogus) “civil rights,” it is an exercise in futility for Republicans to modify their basic policy. . .to attempt to garner black support. . .With respect to Republicans who actively seek the black vote, my counsel is to “fold ‘em,” because you don’t have the cards.” --Ward Connerly, writing in the December 18, 2000, issue of National Review.

And Here's One For The Ages. . .

“You have demonstrated at least in my adult lifetime a higher commitment to the kind of moral leadership that I value in public service and public policy than any person I have ever met. . .Our prayer for you today and for the first lady and for the vice president and Tipper is that you will continue to provide the kind of moral leadership to this country that has enriched the life of virtually every citizen.” --Steve Grossman, national chairman of the Democratic Party, introducing Sick at a Sept. 14, 1998, $50,000-per couple fund-raising dinner in New York City.