Subject: Re: Our one-armed adulterer
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 01:36:19 EST
AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> This is all fluff, Matt. All that matters is what policies our future
> President is going to implement, and whether or not we agree with them.
Absolutely false. False, false, false. Policies are good intentions at
best and glib lies for the most part. Presidents don't simply enact the
idyllic fantasies they dream up to win votes and press. Not nearly that
easy. Whatever George's fraternity brothers have told him about where
he stands on issues is lovely, but I don't believe it has a sufficiently
direct relationship to what he could achieve in office.
Visiting Bob Jones's campus is great "policy" for winning votes there.
Qualifying the visit and criticizing the school after the fact is great
"policy" for winning votes elsewhere.
The Republican party "has as their platform the limiting of government
power"? The limiting of government power that doesn't serve the party's
interests, perhaps.
The (current) Republican party "was originally formed out of a coalition
of anti-slavery
parties"? In much the same way that Hillis Miller, through fantastic
etymologies, gets "parasite" and "host" to mean the same thing.
-- Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu - * Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message * UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
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