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Show neer "You will it " mint make 'find' time for anything. If you want time you Charles Buxton, English author ( 1823-- 871 ). PPTOE) 1 rhe Daily Herald 6 Friday, October 27, 1995 0D Taylor By Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover Tribune Med'a Services, Inc. On the face of it. there are two ways to look at presidential candidates like Merry Taylor and Steve Forbes. On the one band, as everyone keeps -aying. they have "a perfect right' to run for the Republican nomination. They meet the constitutional qualifications for the office and. anyway, where is it written that only politicians can run? The other way is to see them as contributing to candidate clutter, using their money to get themselves into news coverage and the televised debates where they make it more difficult for voters to focus on the "real" candidates, presumably meaning the Bob Doles and Phil Gramms and Lamar Alexanders. No one would argue that the time isn't auspicious for candidates like Forbes and Tay lor. Opinion polls show the voters flat-ohostile to conventional politics and politicians. Ross Perot already has demonstrated, by capturing 19 percent of the vote in 1992. that there is indeed a market for business executives. But the real problem with such unknow ns is the one that surfaced w ith Perot in that same campaign. It was only after prolonged exposure that the voters discovered that the billionaire from Texas was temperamentally not a comfortable choice for president. Once Perot came up w ith that one about the George Bush campaign menacing his daughter's wedding, a lot of people rolled their eyes and changed channels. By contrast, the conventional candidates have long records of public service on which they can be judged for better or worse, both in terms of their positions on issues and in terms of their personal qualities. But what do we know about a Forbes or a Taylor? The one thing we do know is that their single greatest strength is their money. Forbes is a magazine publisher and son of a colorful father, who has loaned his campaign S4 million to get started and threatened to spend several times that amount. e Taylor, a industry executive, has already spent about S3 million and says he has sold S15 million in stocks to finance the enterprise. Forties is. mareinallv at least, less of an ut self-mad- outsider than Taylor. He has the backing and advice of a small coterie of Republican conservatives who believe in supply-sid- e economics and think he can ride the flat tax issue all the way to the nomination. Or, to put it another way, if Jack Kemp had decided to run, there would be no Steve Forbes. Commentary Taylor is trying to exploit the contempt for politics and government so obviously abroad in the land today. "This is a real a town," he says of Washington. "'It's all The quality of the politicians and their advisers, he says, is "depressing" but. he adds, not surprising "because most of them are lawyers." Elect him president, he says, and he will balance the federal budget in 18 months without the help of Congress simply by of the federal bureaucrats. firing one-thir- d There are two critical factors in the campaigns of Taylor and Forbes. The first, of course, is all that money. If they had to raise it, they wouldn't be burying New Hampshire voters in television commercials four months before the primary. The second is the process that makes it possible for anyone to talk himself into or be talked into by campaign consultants who see a paycheck the notion that lightning might strike because all you have to do is win the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and it's all downhill. Taylor, for example, has figured out that if he put'- one supporter in each of Iowa's 2,200 precincts and that supporter enlists 20 friends, that adds up to 44.000 votes caucus night enough to win. Then in New Hampshire, there are all those independents who can vote in the primary. "If we win Iowa," he says blithely, "there's no question in my mind we'll win New Hampshire." In fact, it is probably all a pipe dream. Candidates always seem to think it's easier than it is to organize for those Iowa caucuses. There's always a lot of loose talk about enlisting independents in New Hampshire. But that's the beauty of money. It allows you the luxury of pipe dreams. Ia-!- make-believe- ." Utah's Republican Party boss trying to score political points Utah's Republican Party boss is trying to score political points over Democratic Rep. Bill Orion's vote against the GOP's Medicare measure. While that's to be world, perexpected in this politics-as-usuhaps less acceptable is toy ing with some of the facts. At issue is the 3rd District congressman s vote against the Republican Medicare plan that would strip $270 billion from the health insurance program for Americans 65 and older. Orton supports an alternative drafted by The Coalition, a group of moderate to conservative Democrats in the House who w ould cut only $170 billion from Medicare. A news release from Stan Parrish. Utah Republican Party chairman, says. '"Orton 's spin is to say he's got a better plan, but neither he. nor the Bill in the White House came forward with anything." Actually. Orton did come forward via the Coalition plan that Republicans thwarted trom being considered something conveniently lelt out by Parrish. Furthermore, the news release quotes Utah's GOP Executive Director Russ Behnnann as saying. "They told one of our anonymous callers Orton didn't like anybody's plan, and he was writing his own." In reality. Orton has been on record for a long time as liking the Coalition plan. In the news release Parish says. "Clinton and Orton had a chance to save Medicare for two years when they enjoyed the majority. Both promised welfare reform, both promised to work toward a balanced budget. "Now they're waffling on those promises and lighting the same type of reform they promised just because it is being pushed by a Republican majority." More accurately, neither Democrats nor Republicans really got lively two years ago over Medicare. Little was done until this April when Medicare trustees warned that the system's financing would need to be tripled to maintain solvency unless the current growth rate of 10 percent a year is reduced. Trustees revealed that if nothing is done. Medicare w ill be insolvent by the year 2002. It wasn't until the report was published that the new Republican-dominateConit seized to for immediate gress upon argue cuts to save Medicare and to balance the federal budget. Even though Orton is try ing to save $100 billion, from being cut from the senior citizen health plan, state Republican leaders are claiming that Oiton's vote against the GOP plan is one more abandonment of senior cit d izens. The news release cites one of many watch-do- g "Earlier this groups' ratings: year, a group known as 60 Plus, gave Orton a failing grade on issues most non-partis- Pat Shfisliagl Observations important to seniors." Parrish also tries to capitalize on a Provo issue, saying. "When I saw his (Orion's) crying and whining in the news about how he bungled a $1 million dollar grant to Provo city, it just confirmed the level of insignificance Orton has fallen to in Washington DC." This complaint revolves around criticism from Provo Mayor George Stewart, who is thinking himself of running against Orton. Stewart maintains that because Orton challenged a key member of the House Transportation Committee on one issue, that congressman later voted against Provo's road funds. Actually. Orton was standing up against pork barrel politics when he challenged the congressman. That can be politically dangerous, but we certainly need more of it in Congress. "Orton has claimed the furor over his bungling is just politics as usual," Parrish says. Parrish then counters: "The only ploy we're really engaging in is informing the citizens of Utah that Orton is out of touch with his constituency. "We're using his own words, and his own actions to do it. If that's a ploy, Orton is our most important participant." What's most disturbing about the news release is its implied assumption that voters really don't know what's going on and will obediently swallow whatever the majority party's officials say. Actually, taking constituents for granted is the sign of being "out of touch." Wouldn't it be ironic if the Coalition's Medicare plan serves as a compromise to save the day after Congress and the President cross swords. Letters scrapped and we could have a whole new lexicon of Sports cliches. The Brussels Sprouts are a smelly lot. How about the "Peas." On second thought, maybe not all vegetables are candidates as team names. Sports writers wouldn't be able to avoid "the Squash have been squished." Think of it, The Zucchini from Zanzibar. Alliteration would flourish, and we could be fooled into thinking that sports interviews weren't all reruns of former games Boycotting series I am boycotting the world series this year because of the politically incorrect team names. Imagine. Braves and Indians, its a disgusting use of these names. There is no question the names should be changed. And whiie we're at it. we should eliminate the politically incorrect names of other sports teams currently without conscious. Let's start with the "Utes" that is a totally insensitive name. Then, since I have some Irish in me, I don't ever want to hear of the "Fighting Irish" of Notre Dame again. What an incredible breach of political etiquette, and its offensive to me personally. Next, the Celtics name has got to go and while we're at it, the Vikings aren't around to defend themselves so let's take up their cause and eliminate their name. Of course this is just the beginning, I think we're on a roll. Since we're communicating more and more with "Dolphins," they have communicated with me and say that using their name "Dolphins" is a personal affront to them and they are demanding its discontinued use. Just think. Cowboys. John Wayne is rolling over in his grave; Cougars, my cat is complaining even as I write; Sun Devils (or Red Devils here in Springville). Ole Lucifer is heating up hades for those folk's arrival; Falcons, are flying overhead and you know what birds do when they're flying over head; Trojans, The Spartans are fighting mad because they're not getting equal time and this one has a double negative; Bulls, are saying we're full of it; Miners and Niners want to give us the shaft; Sharks are incensed because they're constantly getting a bad rap, they're really nice, it's the press' fault. Pistons, the Diesels and Rotarys have been misfiring about this one and want equal time. I could go on and on. I think I may have a solution, though. Just as the Stanford Indians changed their name a few years ago to the color Cardinal I would suggest colors rather than animals and people. We have lots of colors we could use. for example: the Lavenders, the Pinks, the Mint Greens, the Mauves, or even earth tones, the Browns, oops that could be considered insensitive to hispanics, or the Whites, nobody want to be considered white anymore so that won't work, the Blacks, that's plain and simple racism. Well, come to think of it. maybe colors aren't such a good idea either so let's scrap the colors idea. OK. How about going to inanimate objects. How about the "Snowflakes" of course that would be shortened to the inte-view- s. Yep, I think we have somethng here. Just think of all the new cliches that could be developed by sports writers. I can think of a million ideas with vegetable teams phrases that could be used over and over again. Rand Gertie Springville Change Halloween date "seaHalloween is the son" of the year. I've seen many houses decked out in more decorations than at Christmas time. Dressing up as someone you are not and running around begging for candy was never high on my list of ideal things to do, but it's here to stay and is growing larger every year. I believe it's time for a change. Rather than having Hailoween on the 31st - w hich is a rotating day - move it to the last Saturday in October. By having it always on Saturday, there would be more parents home to help children dress up. The smaller children could be out sooner and return home sooner. As this is the night for daylight savings time to change, it would also give us an extra hour of daylight. Teachers, I'm sure, would love to have the holiday moved from a school night and active church people would not have to worry about Sunday conflicts. Without it being on a school night, high schools could sponsor dances to keep the older children occupied and the high cost of adult costumes, make-uand parties would be better served with the time, effort and money spent for ihis occasion. There are so many advantages to having it changed to the last Saturday in October. Nothing really comes to mind in keeping it on the 31st. except tradition. Think about it (his year, as you are trying to squeeze everything in on a Tuesday night and how much easier it would be if it were on Saturday night. We can put pressure on our lege islators to have a national ready for next year. Dawn Vogt Spanish Fork fastest-growin- g p change-of-dat- "Flakes." Or we could consider food. I can hear it now. The "Creampuffs" are rolling on to the field. The Broccoli is a team nobody likes not even the president. Or the Bananas are a slippery crew. Hey, I may be on to something here. Just think, all of the old spoil cliches could be Legal pay for nannies was viewing the classified ads in The Daily Herald and noticed an advertiseI ment that read as follows: "NANNYsit-te- r FT, our home, tend 6 mon baby. Need to have a car $2hr. 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V 1 Editor's Note elections drawing nigh, The Daily Herald is beginning to receive its usual glut of letters to the editor that praise or bash candidates. Rather than running these lexers as they come in, the Herald will be collecting them for group placement on specially designated "Political U'tters " pages from time to time prior to With the election. The last day such letters will be printed is Nov. 3, the Friday before the Nov. 7 election. BY GARRY TRUDEAU JJ., mi pipit utiovep&wameR.ILTAUHiTO- COMBTOTHISr WHY PIP ANY CF THISHAV&TO HAPPEN and shorter than 400 d words in length. Doonesbury sil Love My Nanny, Inc. Orem &7HR,.KHAPeA UHYPlPYOU RUNAWAY FROM ALL THAT? PONT UN- FAMILY. yl 1 I L jp A fh IRONIC, ISN'T IT, mATI$ 25KB MAN? ' Z- 5HS (OAS NEY6R. MUCH OF A , -. ZBXB-,6- EST' HIT ON A WOUPYOU ( i |