In his March 27 column, Steve Daley claims that, with the GOP a “null set,” President Clinton will in all likelihood survive the Whitewater controversy and win a second term. As a card-carrying Republican, I hate to admit that Daley is right on this point.
The Republican approach of late seems to be summed up in the following statement: “The programs proposed by the Democrats are an abomination. They will lead this nation down the path of fiscal, moral and economic disaster. So we’ll give you the same prescriptions in smaller doses.”
This “philosophy” is not only contradictory and silly, it is a sure loser. If the American people genuinely do want higher taxes, more government intrusion into and control of their lives and a debilitated national defense, they will support the original purveyors of this claptrap.
In order to give voters a reason to vote against Clinton that transcends his myriad moral and ethical shortcomings, the GOP has to come up with something (dare I say it?) radical. Until it does, Daley is right-we will have to suffer through a second term for the Clintons.
