Swann Song

It appears inevitable now that # 88 will get the endorsement of the Republican committee and roll to an easy primary victory. This process was speeded up last week by a big snafu in the campaign of Bill Scranton. You may remember this country club, pro -choice, jerk of a son of former liberal Republican Gov. Bill Scranton, Sr. who tried to screw Goldwater at the '64 convention and did screw Reagan at the '76 convention.As Dan and Paul will recall, young Billy boy ran for Guv before in 1986 at which time he was defeated by pro -life Democrat Bob Casey who I voted for twice. Casey ran a great campaign ad showing a long haired, hippy-looking young Maharishi Scranton sitting around a camp fire at some commune singing Kumbaya and inferring that he was probably smoking dope too. Now I guess he figures that he can play Chip Oliver and try to sack Lynn in the primary. Unfortunately, the guru's campaign has had its share of trouble and after last week is searching for its third campaign manager. This is because campaign manager #2 put his foot in his mouth by calling Mr. Swann " the rich white guy in the campaign." Billy did the right thing and fired him immediately but it was too late. The Scranton plan before this media blunder was to convince the Committee to declare an open primary. Such a pipe dream is now dead in the water, as is Billy's campaign. Back to this ridiculous comment, it reeks of Liberal elitism, and if I was black I would be very angry. Such a comment supports the Liberal plantation mentality that only whites can ever succeed professionally and financially and therefore by virtue of his success Lynn Swann must be white. This guy needs to read my earlier comment on color blindness. It further supports the notion that blacks should kept down on the "plantation" and remain solely dependent on the federal government because they cannot succeed on their own as whites can. Unbelievably, a writer for the Daily News who happens to be black defended Sranton and tried to isolate him from his campaign manager's comment. Of course, toward the end of the article he finally discloses that he worked on Scranton's '86 campaign. Once again, we see the old double standard, even a Republican can get away with a racist comment so long as he's a liberal. Anyway it's Lynn against Fat Eddie. In an effort to avoid potential hanging chads and recounts in the general election, I propose the following. Let's have both men run the old " Superstars" obstacle course and we'll spot Fat Eddie a 60 second lead. This way the clock will decide the outcome and not the captive media. Go Lynn and go Steelers !