Millions of sensible people are too high-minded to concede that politics is almost always the choice of the lesser evil. "Tweedledum and Tweedledee," they say. "I will not vote." Having abstained, they are presented with a President who appoints the people who are going to rummage around in their lives for the next four years. Consider all the people who sat home in a stew in 1968 rather than vote for Hubert Humphrey. They showed Humphrey. Those people who taught Hubert Humphrey a lesson will still be enjoying the Nixon Supreme Court when Tricia and Julie begin to find silver threads among the gold and the black. -- Russel Baker, "Ford without Flummery"

Millions of sensible people are too high-minded to concede that politics is

almost always the choice of the lesser evil. "Tweedledum and Tweedledee,"

they say. "I will not vote." Having abstained, they are presented with a

President who appoints the people who are going to rummage around in their

lives for the next four years. Consider all the people who sat home in a

stew in 1968 rather than vote for Hubert Humphrey. They showed Humphrey.

Those people who taught Hubert Humphrey a lesson will still be enjoying the

Nixon Supreme Court when Tricia and Julie begin to find silver threads among

the gold and the black.

-- Russel Baker, "Ford without Flummery"

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