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...labor is ambitious to sink Chavez. Her past work as columnist gives them a supply of torpedoes. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy knew what he was doing when he warned his boys, Never write anything down...
...thing, a columnist leaves a paper trail. At Senate confirmation hearings, old rants - stupidities that seemed a good idea at the time - come back from the dead and cause trouble. That will be a problem for Linda Chavez...
...careers, Chavez has been a columnist. She has done what a columnist does: advanced provocative, impolitic ideas. She has shot off her mouth in the way that a mindful, foresighted and rump-covering politician would not. Chavez has shown a talent for infuriating liberals - for example, deriding "crybabies" for bringing certain sexual harassment lawsuits...
...Chavez (admittedly a borderline case, never a full-time career columnist) is a different matter. She is, I would argue, a vivid warning to other columnists: Don't try to cross the line...
...street. A Cabinet officer may become a columnist, a commentator, a talking head. Even Henry Kissinger - in his day the greatest Cabinet-rank manipulator of columnists - now impersonates one from time to time. But it doesn't work in the other direction. Right brain, left brain, different purposes. Pat Buchanan has exhausted himself going back and forth across the line. There's something almost unsanitary in trying to turn a columnist into a public official or politician...