IT'S DUNKIRK, STUPID
MURPHY, MIKE
IT'S DUNKIRK, STUPID MIKE MURPHY HE GOT AWAY WITH IT. So, conservatives are depressed. Here's the good news: The entire six-years-and-running Clinton/Gore confidence scam peaked on Friday, the day...
...Public character...
...so winning the primary is a cinch...
...Already, New Hampshire polls say only 34 percent of Democratic primary voters support Gore for president...
...The impeachment battle was a defeat, but so was Dunkirk...
...Conservatives should cheer up...
...Here's the good news: The entire six-years-and-running Clinton/Gore confidence scam peaked on Friday, the day of Clinton's acquittal...
...No legacy...
...Like Jerry Ford, Gore lacks a real public identity or a galvanizing message...
...It's all over...
...he's just the political aftertaste of Nixon-lite, Bill Clinton...
...No issues...
...It's fitting that he will take the ultimate fall...
...The truth is, America doesn't much like Al Gore to begin with, and now the mainspring of election 2000 will be a great national urge to change the channel and try something else...
...He just sits there, keeping the books...
...The irony is that, like a mob accountant who "only kept the books," Al Gore is the one who will pay the ultimate political price for Bill Clinton...
...We'll be in Berlin in less than two years...
...Combine that kind of weakness with the super-fast 2000 primary schedule designed to help an insurgent challenger, and don't be surprised when Bill Bradley gives Gore the race of his life for the nomination, a race Bradley has a real shot at winning...
...Etc., etc...
...Al Gore will never be president...
...Remember that Clinton's hokum campaign was fueled by purloined GOP ideas...
...He's been only a bit player in the president's low-budget movie, and now the credits are rolling, and the audience will not be screaming for a sequel...
...Gore has been silent about the president...
...You'll get to see Bradley's new jump shot...
...Outside of Democratic politics, it is even worse...
...Al Gore has to endure a real, live Democratic primary...
...Ask Ed Muskie, Scoop Jackson, or Walter Mondale...
...Gore has just sat there keeping the books, looking the other way, polishing his own ambition...
...That leaves character...
...And the problem isn't just the Buddhist monk donors, Red Chinese slush money, and so forth, but the Clinton scandal...
...Gore's problem is that he is old news...
...Sixty-six percent are look- ing elsewhere...
...He hasn't even coughed up the phony platitudes the Democratic acquittal caucus in Congress uses to describe how deeply bothered they are by the very crimes they refused to punish...
...Try a message about welfare reform, shrinking government, NAFTA, and increasing internet bandwidth there, Al...
...Any Republican with name identification beats Gore in national polls...
...Fight on...
...He's not change, he's not new...
...Gore has lined up all the generals and bosses in the Democratic party, Gore has been silent about the president...
...They're dreaming...
...Ask a Gore partisan about all this, and you'll hear an earful of well-polished happy-think...
...Next year, Gore won't even be able to use Clinton's patented gooey-centrist policy shtick...
...Mike Murphy, a political consultant, has run sixteen successful statewide GOP campaigns...
...Washington, always obsessed with the last war, will be the last to see this coming, but come it will...
...Besides, nobody loves Bill Clinton enough to walk across the street for him, let alone elect his successor two years from now...
...The bosses and generals so favored by Democratic front-runners in washington can't deliver a pizza, let alone New Hampshire...
...And, of course, the American people so hate the evil Republicans that a grateful public will happily waltz good ol' Al right into office...
Vol. 4 • February 1999 • No. 22
