Re: family values

["Robert L Bass" <robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If Bass departs this NG, or worse the planet,
> I will be saddened...

Me too.  :^)

> Although I can tell you I am not the sharpest
> knife in the drawer in many cases, it didn't
> take me long reading in this NG to see his
> political flavor...

Independant, liberal about what other can do but conservative about what I will do.

> He doesn't hide it and he is consistent...

True.

> He runs a business where I am certain potential
> customers see his Ahab and the white whale
> fixation and those on the other end of the political
> spectrum probably take their business elsewhere...

Actually, I rarely discuss politics with clients.  Sometimes I ask what they think about a news story though.  It's interesting how
many Texans (for some reason I get a lot of orders from Texas) are opposed to the Bush war.

> So, in other words, exposing his political views
> the way he does costs him in the wallet...

Nah.  Most people couldn't care less what anyone else thinks, especially some salesman with a website.

> ... Foley is, or rather was, a political figue that apparently screwed up big time...

You don't say?

> and Bass is never going to let that go....

Actually, I'm much more interested to see what Foleygate does to Hastert and rest of the the Repugnant leadership.

> (Well maybe he'll let that go if or when
> he sees Foley as a person again...

It almost sounds as though you'd like to console him.

> ...make me almost wet my pants...

Only "almost"?