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From: nxs@fluke.UUCP (Bruce Golub)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Flip-flopping Fritz
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 17:01:55 EST
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I don't know if this is prophetic but the following quote appeared, from a
random quote generator, when I started to post this message.

    "If you can't convince them, confuse them."
			     Harry Truman

There is an annoying tendency, of lower life (i.e. intelligence) forms to
retort arguments with name-calling and rehashed rhetoric. This is evident by
the recent postings of one rfs@loral, all though there are many others. Now
this might be of interest to a certain animal behaviorist friend of mine who
is trying to teach hamsters and gerbils how to use a type-writer. Will
rfs@loral please contact him and explain how you have managed to learn this
trick yourself.

rfs@loral >

> Well you pointy headed liberals really confuse me. 

Your problem is obvious (see above)

> This can't be the man that voted down funds for every	defense	system he
> ever saw.

After many long years in the senate (14 I think) he has vetoed the F-1, B-1
and the MX. The MX we don't need (except to pad the pockets of those
building it) and the B-1 will be outdated by the time it is in production
(and the cost will be at least three times the original price-tag). 
Has most intelligent people know, you can not examine a candidates position
by looking at his voting record on congressional bills. Riders (i.e. things
that have nothing to do with the main intent of the bill) are often added to
a bill right before passage. This is a sleazy tactic practiced by both
republicans and democrats. 

Mondale has always been in favor of a strong military, but not a strong-arm
military policy. He wants to increase or military strength in conventional,
proven resources and means, not some esoteric, off the wall, multi-billion
dollar space-weapons program. Every noted military strategist (outside of
ronnie's buddies on their own million dollar welfare program and of course
that internationally acclaimed exert on everything, Milo Median) has stated
that the technological difficulties presented by this weapons system are at
least ten to twenty years away, yet the counter-measures are cheap and exist
today.

> Fritz never did like Ronnie's tax cut. Even though he received a
> 25% tax reduction from it.  

The reason why he may not have liked ronnies tax cut(sic), is that he sees
who benefits from it (the rich) and who pays for it (the middle-income to
poor). 

> He ought to thank Ronnie for cutting his taxes.

He would rather offer his compassion for those who have suffered under the
Reagan tax cuts(sic).

> Some of them (democrats) I would even consider voting for.

What? And become a pointy headed, fuzzy liberal? No thanks, I would rather
have you vote for someone who thinks like you do.

    "How should I know where they are going to be place." RR

    "Well Mr. President (just like in the movies), if they are called
     space-weapons I suppose they will be in space." WM

    "I'm not a scientist" RR

    "not much of a president either" me


Bruce Golub/John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc./Everett WA