bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) (11/09/84)
Well, here we are after the elections. Reagan won by a landslide
and Fritz is back in Washington looking for a job. A good question to ask
at this time is: have the Democrats learned anything from this fiasco?
Have they learned that it's not enough simply to have a woman on the ticket?
Could they have won the election with a conservative Southerner in the VP
spot? Maybe it was Fritz himself. People could be tired of old, liberal
politics from the '60s. If Reagan is characterized by falling asleep in
public, Fritz is certainly the one who can put the public to sleep.
I was amazed to hear "Teach Your Children" being played as background
to those Mondale/Ferraro commercials during the last weeks of the campaign.
I was actually expecting to see George McGovern step out in front of the
camera and denounce the war in Viet Nam. Don't they know that that stuff
doesn't work in middle America anymore (not that it ever did)? There may
be a few relics at Berkeley who still get off on that stuff and really
believe that Fritz would save us all from the nuclear boogeyman, but most
of us never did. Most of us know by now that it's the Soviets, not Reagan,
who are the real threat to peace.
Maybe the Democrats will learn that a few left-wing activists from
the convention who believe gays are entitled to special protection under
the law and that radical feminism is the salvation of man (whoops) humankind
were the ones who lost this one for Fritz. The NOW succeeded in muscling
their candidate onto the ticket, but the American people saw it as another
special interest group putting the hard-sell on Mondale. Traditional
Democrats (blue-collar workers, Jews, Blacks, Catholics, etc.)
don't go in for all that left-wing fanaticism and showed it by giving
Reagan his victory.
Except for a few anomalies (e.g. Studds in MA) traditional values
came out on top in this election. It bodes well for the future. I for
one am very pleased with the outcome. If the Dems learn from their mistakes
and kick the radicals back into the '60s maybe they can undue some of the
damage of the elections of 1984. I would like to see a strong, two-party
system.
--
Tom Albrecht Burroughs Corp.
...{presby|psuvax|sdcrdcf}!burdvax!bnaplmyers@uwvax.UUCP (Jeff Myers) (11/12/84)
> I was amazed to hear "Teach Your Children" being played as background > to those Mondale/Ferraro commercials during the last weeks of the campaign. > > Except for a few anomalies (e.g. Studds in MA) traditional values > came out on top in this election. It bodes well for the future. I for > one am very pleased with the outcome. If the Dems learn from their mistakes > and kick the radicals back into the '60s maybe they can undue some of the > damage of the elections of 1984. I would like to see a strong, two-party > system. > > -- > Tom Albrecht Burroughs Corp. > ...{presby|psuvax|sdcrdcf}!burdvax!bnapl What's so radical about "Teach Your Children"? Beautiful song. Mr. Albrecht must be confusing it with "Ohio" (also a good song, even if it is about my home state and Gov. Rhodes). "Strong, two-party system"? By which he must have meant "strong, status quo- oriented system". Time to get back to the good ole' days before we had the poison fruit of 60's radicals infecting our country, like the Voting Rights Act, the War Powers Act, etc. Who needs that shit? -- Jeff Myers The views above may or may not University of Wisconsin-Madison reflect the views of my employers. ARPA: myers@wisc-rsch.arpa uucp: ..!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!myers