roundtable: Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days

roundtable: Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days

Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days

Jeff Porten (porten@pobox.upenn.edu)
Wed, 4 Jan 1995 02:37:30 -0500 (EST) 

From: porten@pobox.upenn.edu (Jeff Porten)
Message-Id: <199501040737.CAA05996@pobox.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: Back to the Future Robber Baron Days
To: roundtable@cni.org
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 02:37:30 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <v02110106ab2f3a37dd07@[199.35.142.155]> from "Glenn S. Tenney" at Jan 3, 95 04:00:04 pm


> This is most naive.   Let's say, hypothetically of course,
> [long list of suppositions deleted]

While we're at it, let's implicate Newt in Teapot Dome, shall we?

Of COURSE there are avenues for corruption here; the question is,
should we as the loyal opposition shout about it until we're blue in
the face and no one at all is listening to us?  Or should we let
people quietly draw their own conclusions and then remind them of
Gingrich's ethical lapses when it can aid a cause?

If we push the issue now, ESPECIALLY with hypotheticals and downright
hysterical charges, the entire issue will permanently lose its
potency.  The Republicans can still get mileage out of Gennifer
Flowers' name; we need to learn how to play this with the same sort 
of mastery.

> Even with no advance, this deal stinks to high heaven.

I agree.  I thank God that Gingrich let himself screw up so badly; 
it takes the shine off the Man Who Could Do No Wrong in terms of
political strategy.  Now we add this to our ammunition and use it when
appropriate.

Jeff Porten
<porten@pobox.upenn.edu>

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