Top 12 Moments from the 2000 Presidential Race
(list created, probably on election eve 2000):
It was a stupid presidential campaign. Here’s the Top 12 Moments from it anyway.
12. I’ll think of a #12 later. Maybe any of Nader’s corporate-parody ads.
11. The inane meme that “Gore invented the Internet”.
10. I meet my local Heuristic Mantic Mystic at a local Gore rally.
9. Bush wonders if global warming even exists. And other great Bush gaffs.
8. The Republicans release a pro-Nader advertisement, showing Nader dumping on Gore. Nader- advocates are annoyed because it doesn’t show the next part of the speech: Nader dumping on Bush.
7. Bill Clinton marches through a narrow and winding hallway to the pulpit to speak at the Democratic convention. (Also note the Esquire magazine cover.)
6. John Hagelin supporters march out of the Pat Bucchannan proceedings. In one building, Hagelin is announced as the winner of the Reform party candidacy. In the other, Buchannan is announced as the winner of the Reform party candidacy.
5. Gary Bauer accidentally falls while flipping a pancake in some midwestern state.
4. Browne’s campaign spot, showing a wrecking ball run down the IRS building, asking the question “Can America survive no IRS?”, and showing some business-guys’ celebrations -fists clenched in the air and ties flying upward. Amusing.
3. Alan Keyes mosh-pits to the music of Rage Against the Machine. A Must!
2. Dan Savage licks Gary Bauer’s doorknobs. Or something to that effect.
1. George Bush calls a NY Times (or was it Washington Post) reporter an asshole. Cheney agrees.