Editorials/That Scoundrel Bush/Bring Back Tip
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
THAT SCOUNDREL BUSH by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. October 19, 1988 This presidential election demon- are only a few left in Moscow. As the veals that for them there are only two education adviser in...
...When the gentlemanly Bush county sheriff...
...O'Neill guilty of trespassing upon House Ethics Committee, all of whose mala peace accords of 1987, which Wright "should know that any allegathe President's foreign policy domain, members are getting to know Speaker Wright himself endorsed and applaud- tion of ties between this United States but Tip never got into an airplane and Wright intimately...
...peace-time growth in the postwar him, for instance, military spending and fishing...
...he has not...
...They should think better of tion ago were ardent to discuss such lofGeorge Bush . . . would be so willing to gentleman eager for public service...
...Now their heirs take refuge in debase that precious currency of our being a liberal except that it reminds calling Bush a name-caller...
...They charge him with mud- mer of bad polls and the Iran-contra about their liberalism...
...There is nothing wrong with ty stuff...
...Michael Dukakis swelling, the liberals pronounced politically dead after the judge it a low blow to be called liberal...
...You have run a competent and That is what Democrats call leadertheir choice...
...To Bentsen in Los Angeles the other day, the whiz kid Dukakis, Bush remains Freudian mysteries call "low self- their great credit, liberals of a genera-"I don't think we ever imagined that what he has been all his adult life, a esteem...
...In his passion to dinista repression...
...In time they and open season on United States em- is inaugurated forty-first President of Michael Dukakis has even implicated will have created the conservative of bassies...
...He, as a New York just too hot to handle—to wit, though that the liberals would have us believe...
...How were you to ship, when they achieve it...
...Instead Bush raised issues political science do not discuss it, devious epigone of that fabulous liberal now presides over the longest period of that the experts said would work against which, given their garrulity, is aston- bete noir, Richard Milhous Nixon...
...Had Bush truly taken the "low the United States, liberals will have one Bush in McCarthyism, though Bush has their choice, or more precisely the illu- road" he might have made more of the source of consolation: the American identified no Communists in the State sion of such a conservative, and that illu- criminal behavior of Dukakis's top people elected another scoundrel...
...Partisan classified information is now the sub- peacefully creating democracy in Nica- of the leaders of that opposition, Mario Republicans may have thought the ject of yet another investigation by the ragua, as was called for in the Guate- Rappaccioli, warned that Speaker Hon...
...Lamented the Hon...
...Ameri- cy toward Nicaragua and to ingratiate goes up: "Bring back Tip...
...Then again, others argue that there agency [CIA] and any Nicaraguan citiflew into enemy territory to attack his spent so much time before them—nor, was no American policy for assisting zen means virtual death, in the form of government...
...Presumably the Ethics Committee sary that the ties exist, only that soclassified intelligence, as Speaker Wright Speaker Wright argues that his infor- will decide the legality of Speaker meone say that they exist...
...foreign policy...
...Department and seems to share this ad sion will rouse their colossal indignation...
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...Now they seem paign on the highest level, that is to say slinging...
...a 30-year jail sentence...
...No Speaker has ever ed...
...impropriety of these utterances has al- Speaker Wright's yawp encourages Sannounced, "We have received clear Others argue that he got the informa- ready been established...
...When a Now, with George Bush's lead over a grueling campaign wherein Bush was know that liberals would suddenly ad- Republican does, it is "demagogic...
...When Bush calls Dukakis a liberal accuse him of campaigning on the "low Iowa caucus, unlikely to survive a sum- For years they have been positively vain he is summoning his opponent to cam-road...
...themselves...
...sponse to past conservative leaders re10 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1988 name of Democratic statecraft...
...One worth House Office Building...
...It is not necesever hearing of Tip's blurting out not now convicted of felonious acts...
...Finally, I cannot recall for that matter, have many congressmen Nicaraguan democrats...
...I say laugh it off, a contest about his issue " they usually get the conservatives of answer is quite simple: he cannot, and George...
...From the charges against him it ap- Times/CBS News Poll reported in mid-American liberals deplore the sordid- How can a wimp so rapidly transform pears that Bush will be marked down September, changed the election "into ness of their conservative opponents, himself into such a hard case...
...Dukakis's medical history, and unfrom the eyes of the American peo- ing portrait of the erstwhile moderate, and the lightweights such as Gerald substantiated reports of the Governor's ple...
...ministration's happy notion that there Watch—so objectionable will Bush become in their imagination that princiAdapted from RET's weekly Washing- pled disagreement with him will be imton Post column syndicated by King possible...
...Y charges against him...
...A review of the liberals' reFeatures...
...Even learned professors of the George Bush, is one of a very nasty, Ford and he who from the White House own illnesses...
...As the veals that for them there are only two education adviser in Massachusetts, strates a political truth long kept liberals' charges accumulate, the emerg- kinds: the scoundrels such as Nixon, Mrs...
...tion" by the Sandinistas against Wright has shown reckless disregard for conducting his own gimcrack foreign Whether or not Speaker Wright, in Nicaragua's democratic opposition but the liberties and for the lives of the policy from room 1236 of the Long- this infelicitous logorrhea, betrayed to assist the opposition en route to Nicaraguan democratic opposition...
...The O'Neill has brains enough to realize that 20, when at a press conference he pro- sources but from the public record...
...Surely Tip is accused of having done on September mation did not come from classified Wright's September 20 utterances...
...Speak- an overreaction on the part of the can policy was not to provoke "overreac- himself with the left-wing of his party, er Wright is accused of vaingloriously government in Nicaragua...
...Obviously democracy by conducting a campaign Americans of high taxes, imperious the electorate sees through this infantile that resembles a demagogic race foret the liberals continue to lay dark social engineering, a queasy economy, deception...
...Here in the last rounds of admirable campaign...
...And so not only in testimony from CIA people that they tion from classified sources but that his scotch the Reagan Administration poli- America but in Nicaragua too the cry have deliberately done things to provoke presentation of it was confused...
...Apparently it is a truth that is Is Bush really the diabolical figure period...
...Lloyd scandal, and a goner 17 points behind to suffer from what the doctors of the on the level of ideas and principles...
...The as a scoundrel...
Vol. 21 • December 1988 • No. 12
