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This document is a scanned page from the 'Opinions' section of The Virgin Islands Daily News, dated July 29, 2013. It features two primary op-eds: one by Hershey and Green analyzing GOP history to advise then-Chairman Reince Priebus, and a scathing critique by Maureen Dowd regarding the Anthony Weiner (Carlos Danger) scandal and his wife Huma Abedin's role, drawing parallels to the Clintons. The document bears a 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT' stamp, suggesting it was part of a congressional investigation, likely involving the Clintons or government oversight.
People (10)
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| Huma Abedin | Political Aide / Wife of Anthony Weiner |
Subject of Maureen Dowd's op-ed; described as 'elegant', 'stylish Muslim Garbo', and 'consigliere' to Hillary Clinton.
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| Anthony Weiner | Former Congressman / Mayoral Candidate |
Subject of scandal discussed in op-ed; referred to as 'Carlos Danger', 'punk', and compared unfavorably to Bill Clinton.
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| Maureen Dowd | Author/Columnist |
Author of the op-ed 'Time to hard-delete Carlos Danger'.
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| Hillary Clinton | Former Secretary of State / Potential Presidential Candidate |
Mentioned as Huma Abedin's boss; references to her handling of Bill Clinton's scandals and potential 2016 run.
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| Bill Clinton | Former US President |
Compared to Anthony Weiner regarding sex scandals; described as a 'roguish genius' and 'greatest political and policy...
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| Reince C. Priebus | Republican National Chairman |
Subject of the left-column op-ed; advised to learn from Ray C. Bliss.
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| Ray C. Bliss | Former RNC Chairman (1965-1969) |
Historical figure used as a model for uniting the Republican party.
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| Sydney Leathers | Weiner's 'digital girlfriend' |
Mentioned in the context of the Weiner scandal.
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| William Hershey | Author |
Co-author of the 'Luring elephants into big tent' op-ed.
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| John C. Green | Author |
Co-author of the 'Luring elephants into big tent' op-ed.
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Organizations (5)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| The Virgin Islands Daily News |
The newspaper publishing the page.
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| Republican National Committee |
Subject of the first op-ed.
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| Congress |
Mentioned in both op-eds and the political cartoon.
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| Vogue |
Magazine that featured Huma Abedin.
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| New York Times |
Maureen Dowd's primary employer.
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Locations (5)
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Location of the newspaper.
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Place where Huma Abedin was raised.
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Home of Ray C. Bliss.
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Location where Weiner would pick up Huma Abedin.
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Address for sending letters to the editor.
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Relationships (4)
married to the classy, gorgeous mother of his infant son
work her way up from intern to consigliere in tough Hillaryworld
digital girlfriend and fellow extreme exhibitionist
Priebus could take a lesson from history... from Ray C. Bliss
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"Time to hard-delete Carlos Danger"Source
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"Huma gained renown, movie star suitors and a Vogue spread as the stylish Muslim Garbo silently and efficiently parting the waves for Hillary."Source
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"Bill Clinton was the greatest political and policy mind of a generation... Anthony is behaving similarly without the chops or résumé."Source
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"A NEW SURVEY SUGGESTS THAT 17% OF AMERICANS ARE LIVING IN A WORLD OF DELUSION, SEPARATED COMPLETELY FROM REALITY. CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING 17%"Source
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"Let me remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."Source
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Monday, July 29, 2013 OPINIONS The Virgin Islands Daily News 31
Luring elephants into big tent
Republican national chairman Reince C. Priebus could take a lesson from history in his efforts to herd his fellow elephants into a big tent. Nobody did a better job of coaxing feuding Republicans to cooperate than Ray C. Bliss, the Akron, Ohio, insurance man who chaired the national committee from 1965 to 1969. His success is worth remembering.
When Bliss became chairman in 1965, the Republicans were in much worse shape than in 2013: President Lyndon Johnson had won a landslide re-election over Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, and the Democrats held large majorities in both houses of Congress and the statehouses.
The party was deeply divided between "moderates," such as New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, and "conservatives," like Goldwater. The latter appeared to bless strident voices when he famously proclaimed: "Let me remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Although best known as a "nuts-and-bolts" party mechanic, Bliss used a two-step approach to address these ideological rifts.
The first step was to challenge voices that made Republicans look extreme to voters. On Nov. 5, 1965, he issued a seven-handed critique of "radicals" on the left and right, singling out a staunchly anti-communist firebrand Robert Welch:
"One of my major concerns in the matter of extremism of the radical right is that honest, patriotic and conscientious conservatives may be misjudged because of irresponsible radicals such as Robert Welch, who has accused President Eisenhower of being a 'dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.'"
"We've got to get this (party) in the middle of the road," Bliss explained, "Eisenhower and his people have taken enough."
There was a sharp backlash. One letter writer called Bliss "sneaky" and further:
"You recently asked all Republicans to get out of the strongest and most effective anti-Communist organization in the United States. I question your motives."
"You recently asked all Republicans to get out of the strongest and most effective anti-Communist organization in the United States. I question your motives."
William Hershey & John C. Green
Bliss wasn't bothered by the criticism. "I don't have the fixation I have all the answers," he told reporters, "everything is compromise."
His second step was leading Republicans to common ground.
The means was the Republican Coordinating Committee. Its members were a cross-section of the party: Eisenhower and four former presidential candidates — Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Alfred Landon and Thomas Dewey — as well as governors, members of Congress, state legislators and party leaders.
Eisenhower was a key to the committee's work. "He backed me up in the early days of my chairmanship," Bliss reported, "He had the respect of all factions."
The method was face-to-face dialogue.
"You don't say anything nasty, at least not publicly, about somebody you're going to dinner with tonight," Bliss said.
The committee eventually produced 48 policy proposals, offering an alternative to President Johnson's "Great Society" program.
In the end, Bliss got the results he wanted: the GOP made a huge comeback in the 1966 elections, and in 1968, it won back the White House.
Of course, 2013 is not 1965, Mitt Romney is no Barry Goldwater, nor is the party division identical. And the GOP may lack an Eisenhower to rally around.
Still, Chairman Priebus could take a lesson from Chairman Bliss' success in herding the elephants into a big tent.
— William Hershey is a former Knight-Ridder Washington correspondent and Columbus bureau chief for the Akron Beacon Journal and Dayton Daily News. John Green is director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron.
Time to hard-delete Carlos Danger
Maureen Dowd
When you puzzle over why the elegant Huma Abedin is propping up the eel-like Anthony Weiner, you must remember one thing: Huma was raised in Saudi Arabia, where women are treated worse by men than anywhere else on the planet.
Comparatively speaking, the pol from Queens probably seems like a prince. Even though he's a punk. After he got caught sexting and flashing women online in 2011, he promised to "never, ever" do that to his family again and slouched away from Congress. He cyber-creeped other young women in a pervy bout of tweet du seigneur as his wife traveled the world with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state.
Yet, while married to the classy, gorgeous mother of his infant son and planning a redemptive run for mayor, he told a Facebook friend and phone-sex partner he had never met that he loved her. Then he told her to "hard-delete" all their correspondence — if that is what you call it.
Aside from his zany Zorro-like nom de porn, Carlos Danger, Weiner has been called many things. His digital girlfriend and fellow extreme exhibitionist, Sydney Leathers (whose name sounds like a nom de porn), said that Weiner described himself to her accurately as "an argumentative, perpetually horny middle-aged man."
But Weiner's Goya-esque grotesquerie earns him another name: the "Rosemary's Baby" of the Clintons.
Bill and Hillary Clinton transformed the way we look at sex scandals. They plowed through the ridicule, refused to slink away in shame like Gary Hart, said it was old news, and argued that if Hillary didn't object, why should voters?
Poppy Bush thought Americans would reject Bill Clinton in 1992 because of his lascivious ways, but he learned that voters are more concerned with how their own lives will be changed than they are with politicians' duplicitous private lives.
Americans keep moving the marker of acceptable behavior, partly as a reflection of the coarsening of society and partly as a public acknowledgment that many pols with complicated personal lives have been good public servants.
Now, defining deviancy downward, Señor and Señora Danger are using the Clinton playbook.
The difference is, there's nothing in Weiner's public life that is redeeming. In 12 years in Congress, he managed to get only one minor bill passed, on behalf of a donor, and he doesn't work well with people. He knows how to be loud on cable and wave his Zorro sword in our faces.
Some sex scandals, like Mark Sanford's, fall into the realm of flawed human nature, and some, like Weiner's, fall into the realm of "Seriously, what is wrong with you?"
Huma gained renown, movie star suitors and a Vogue spread as the stylish Muslim Garbo silently and efficiently parting the waves for Hillary. She had to be resilient to work her way up from intern to consigliere in 'tough Hillaryworld, and she saw firsthand how the Clintons beat back foes.
They love Huma, but the Clintons, now showcasing philanthropy and public service preparatory to Hillary's 2016 run, are not happy about getting dragged into the lewd spectacle that is a low-budget movie version of their masterpiece.
The former president is distancing himself, one associate said, noting, "He's not getting anywhere near that grenade."
Huma's friends are "slapping-my-forehead astounded," as one put it, that Weiner would get in the race knowing the online land mines that would rock Huma's world again and torpedo the campaign.
Weiner wooed Huma assiduously, showing up at the Westchester airport in the wee hours to pick her up when she came back from trips with Hillary. "They were two hyperdrive young brains that just clicked," said a friend. "She liked his Borscht Belt humor."
Her circle understands that "you love who you love," as one put it, marveling at Weiner's "madonna-whore" complex played out online. But that doesn't mean that you ask people to vote for someone who's dreadfully flawed for a major office, just because you love him.
They are worried that Huma's decision to vouch for her husband is starting to hurt her, the one person they all assumed would never be ensnared in anything weird or bad. "The hard stink of this one is going to get on everyone involved," said one friend.
Another agreed: "As soon as she stood up to say those words she changed herself from a sophisticated, mysterious guiding intelligence and beauty next to Hillary Clinton to the wife of a tarnished Anthony Weiner."
They fear Huma learned the wrong lesson from Hillary, given that Bill was a roguish genius while Weiner's a creepy loser.
"Bill Clinton was the greatest political and policy mind of a generation," said one. "Anthony is behaving similarly without the chops or résumé."
As often as Bill apologized, he didn't promise he would "never, ever" do it again, as Weiner did.
"What people won't forgive is lying in the apology," said the Clinton pal. "It has to be sincere, and it sure as hell has to be accurate."
— Maureen Dowd is a New York Times columnist.
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A NEW SURVEY SUGGESTS THAT 17% OF AMERICANS ARE LIVING IN A WORLD OF DELUSION SEPARATED COMPLETELY FROM REALITY.
CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING 17%
NEWS
A NEW SURVEY SUGGESTS THAT 17% OF AMERICANS ARE LIVING IN A WORLD OF DELUSION SEPARATED COMPLETELY FROM REALITY.
CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING 17%
NEWS
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