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1 asked who my wife planned to vote for as Party nominee for the U.S. Senate. My wife reminded him that we still have the secret ballot in America but when he kept insisting, she said that she strongly favored Jim Miller. The caller then declared that as she could not support Oliver North then she should not attend the convention because North was certain to win the nomination. He added that since all Republicans are obliged to vote in November for the Party candidate (not true) she would be wasting her time. My wife told him that his intimidation frightened her not one bit. If North is certain to win, why was the caller so anxious that Miller supporters not attend? At this point the caller hung up.
The North campaign must be running scared if it has to resort to' threats and intimidation. And well it must be because it is not just the liberals who are highlighting negative issues regarding North, so are many mainstream conservatives. Former President Reagan declared that North seems unable to tell the truth. Robert McFarlane, North’s former boss on the National Security Council, writes that North has a tendency to lie (even under oath) and that he is a fanatic whose personal arrogance can lead him to ignore the law and to act contrary to the instructions of his superiors. Some senior military officers who know North personally as well as several Republican senators and congressmen have publicly declared their belief that he should not serve as senator from Virginia. The Readers Digest, hardly a liberal publication, printed a lengthy article describing North’s
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