Let's Get Tough!

June, 1988

Madison was a runt. John Adams was a pain in the butt. Washington brushed his teeth with Lemon Pledge. None of them would be elected today. They weren't cuddly. The founding fathers were stubborn s.o.b.s who called honor sacred and fought for what they believed. In 1804, our third Vice-President, Aaron Burr, shot and killed ex–Treasury Secretary Al Hamilton in a duel.Of our current crop of Bushes, Doles, Harts, Gephardts, Simons and Dukaki, whom can you even imagine in a fistfight?"Hair sty...