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Show THE THUNDERBIRD iSWNDHO) iHtsiti: Mb Didn't we just leave this party? The great Vince Lombardi once stalked into a Packer team meeting and glared at the few, early comers that had already arrived. "I thought called this meeting for 9 a.m.," growled Lombardi. The unknowing rookie proudly explained to Lombardi that he had arrived early to be on time. "Son," Lombardi roared, "when call a meeting for 9 a.m., mean 9 a.m. don't mean 8:50, and don't mean 9:10. If ever see you at a meeting again, not on time. You're going to be back shoveling 1 in Louisiana." s As the presidential campaign, like the yuietide commercial season, draws near and invades our consciousness at progressively earlier intervals, we can only think wistfully of years when presidential campaigns started within a year of the Iowa Caucases and Packers arrived "on time" to team meetings. The only justice in this campaign cacophony is the people have payed little heed to the campaigns that have captured all of the meaningful substance of a Stephen King novel (Time once referred to King, with justice, as the McDonald's of literature). Casey Stengel, while in the process of coaching a Mets team to 1 20 losses, once turned to his forlorned bench and exclaimed, "Can't anybody here play this game?" Surely, Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Kirk, after witnessing the of the Hart and Biden campaigns, has become a philosophical bedfellow of Stengel. The current national polls show the Democratic leader to be the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a man widely believed to be incapable of winning the nomination. The Democrats who are widely believed to be capable of winning both the nomination and the White House, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Senators Sam Nunn and Edward Kennedy, have decided not to run. The Democrats are then left with with six candidates who, despite their universally premature starts at the presidential race, have done little to excite the Democratic electorate. Perhaps a small whisper of things to come blew when a Des Moines Register poll showed Illinois Senator Paul Simon overtaking Congressman Richard Gephardt in the all important caucas state of Iowa. Simon portrays himself as Trumanesque plaintalker and espouses a government of common sense and leadership. Given these qualities' absence in the past year of the Reagan Administration, the prospects of this theme playing well may be good. Although not standing out in the polls, yet, Bruce Babbitt has led an anemic Democratic field in innovation, creativity and realistic ideas to confront the realities of our time. However, in a time of media glitz and hot candidates, Babbitt is a wooden speaker and does little to generate enthusiasm. On the GOP side, the candidates, though better known, offer no comfort. National polls show Vice President George Bush as the Republican frontrunner although his national support appears to be "soft." Bush appears to be leading due to his name recognition and the campaign's success in keeping faux pas to a minimum... so far. However, given Bush's penchant for verbal snafus, it only seems a matter of time before the Bush campaign sheds blood. Once it begins to bleed, it will be found that the Bush campaign is a hemophiliac and will go into a public opinion freefall. The campaign of Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole appears to be more solid, but seems incapable of motivating an excited national in national polls and sorely following. Dole trails Bush by needs a victory in Iowa in February. Prospects for a Dole upset in Iowa appear good, however, given Dole's affinity for the midwest and farm issues due to campaigning in his home state of Kansas. A Dole victory in Iowa will engage the hemophiliac tendencies of Bush. Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson can benefit from national coverage that will demonstrate that their heads do not spin around, at least in public. But, their chances appear far remote. As Iowa draws near, presidential politics are sure to stomp into our consciousness (much like my upstairs neighbor at 6 a.m. Saturday mornings). Iowa will symbolize the return of presidential campaigns in earnest. When the ballots of Iowa are counted, the Bush campaign will be bleeding, and the Simon campaign will be booming. But, amid it all, listen closely and you will hear America saying in unison, "Didn't we just leave this party?" I I I two-to-o- DR. fl.F. RICH. OPTOMETRIST 60 NORTH MAIN 25 film give you prints in 60 minutes! picture-perfe- Offer W expires 113007 Only one coupon per purchase PROCESSOR SAME DAY OR NEXT DAY SERVICE FROM DISC, 110, 126, 135 FILM k 518 SOUTH MAIN STREET, CEDAR CITY. CALL 586-FOT- O I I I will off on the next roll of 110, you bring to us. 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