[okie01]

However, former congressmen like Kerrey and Charlie Stenholm should be enlisted; not just for an occasional press conference, but in an integral fashion in the pro-reform marketing campaign that will be waged all year. It will create the appearance of bipartisanship before the people, and it will create the conditions for Democrat officeholders to defect.

A simply outstanding idea, on so many different levels.

Zell Miller would certainly join this movement. As would Sam Nunn, probably. Plus, John Breaux led the commission that suggested private accounts as a reform measure.

Aside from Stenholm, the President could also probably even enlist Martin Frost -- a smart man, though a liberal, who also has some scores to settle with the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean.

[Western Phil]

Kerrey (then from Nebraska - had been governer and was senator[?]) seemed to be a fairly reasonable person in the primaries, but was lost in the dust when the Clintons admitted to adultery on national tv. He has since shown number of strange liberal ideas (including pro-Sadaam bias), but I am convinced, he would have not been the national disaster that we had in the previous administration.