Barash is an expert at comparing animal and human behaviors. A Ph.D. in zoology, he is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is author of more than twenty books, including Making Sense of Sex and, most recently, The Mammal in the Mirror. Dr. Barash’s articles have appeared in Psychology Today and Playboy. No wonder he brings deep insight to the strangeness of President Clinton and his understudy Mr. Gore.

"Alpha-male status is conferred by the other males in a group, not by the females," explained Dr. Barash. "But Mr. Clinton became president through the support of females, not males."

The Clinton–Gore ticket won two minority victories—43 percent in 1992, 49 percent in 1996. In both cases, Clinton lost the male vote but carried far more than half the votes cast by single and divorced (but not married) women. Watching the latest PBS agitprop, Not For Ourselves Alone, about suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who could forget that without female votes Bill Clinton and Al Gore would never have reached the White House?

Researchers have found that when a man perfumed with the pig-mating pheromone chemical androsterone goes into a bar, he is more attractive to women. He is also much more likely be punched in the face by men, the subliminal scent triggering a reaction opposite that in women.

Bill Clinton seems to elicit a similar response, almost biochemically attracting the passion of immature women but also the deep, visceral contempt of mature men. True Alpha males, by contrast, are respected and followed by other males in their group, gaining access to females as a byproduct of this status. Females, the sociobiologists tell us, are genetically predisposed to give themselves sexually to whomever attains this power status conferred by the group’s males.

Perhaps the clearest indicator of President Clinton’s true stature among males is that whenever, as Commander-in-Chief, he appears before any unit of the military (he once boasted of "loathing"), he insists that all soldiers be disarmed or have all bullets removed from their weapons. No other president in history, Republican or Democrat, has exhibited such insecurity about being in the presence of his own loyal warriors. Clinton also had a warning issued to all soldiers that they will be punished if they voice their feelings about him to the press. This is not the behavior of a confident leader of a free society, nor of a true Alpha male.

So why do so many unfulfilled women support Bill Clinton? He is a seducer, not just individually but also en masse. He is empathetic, attuned to feelings rather

than ideas. My wife Ellen believes that Clinton’s appeal is even more basic: he is seen by women as someone completely under the control of a woman, Hillary. He may sneak around behind her back, but Clinton will use his political power exactly as Hillary commands. (Alpha males, by the way, always do what they do boldly and openly. Sneaking moments of cheap oral sex in hidden back passageways is the behavior of subordinate Beta or even lower-ranking males. Likewise, Mr. Gore’s sneaky and smarmy efforts to pay Naomi Wolf under the table, keeping her position hidden from the Federal Election Commission and public, and to prevent her appearance last Sunday on ABC’s This Week were Beta or lower, not the way of a legitimate leader or Alpha male.)

Author Toni Morrison described Bill Clinton as "America’s first Black President," manifesting "every trope of Blackness," from his broken home upbringing to his choice of musical instrument, the saxophone. I suspect that Bill Clinton is also our first "female" President, manifesting "every trope of womanliness"—from emotional seductiveness and quivering lip to submissiveness before a stronger mate.

Al Gore is not as polarizing as Clinton. Men perceive him as more or less male, but also as someone who, because of an overbearing strong father, never quite attained full manhood. To help his senator father win reelection during the Vietnam War, Gore put on the uniform, used it as a costume in press photos with his dad, and then went off to spend months smoking marijuana in a post far away from combat. Gore seems too eager to please, phony, and favor-currying in a milquetoast way. On occasion, Gore has admitted that he had wanted to be a writer and journalist. But his strong-willed father groomed Prince Albert from infancy to succeed where the father’s ambition fell short, to become President of the United States. Even now, Gore’s eyes reflect the out-of-place sadness of a person trapped into living somebody else’s dreams and life, not his own. No wonder men tend to perceive Al Gore as only marginally adequate, and women find him unexciting.

The gender gap has been the Democratic Party’s Holy Grail for more than a decade. In quest of it, Democrats oriented their policies and propaganda to get half the male vote but win by getting more than half of female (theoretically 53 percent of voters) ballots. Every Democrat ad has featured emotional appeals to women, and every policy has been justified as being "for the children." Clinton, with help from his allies in the national press, was able to promote this vision despite evidence that he himself was a sex harasser, exploiter of women, and, according to at least one credible accuser, even a rapist. With female votes, the Clinton–Gore Administration won reelection in 1996 only two years after House and Senate Democrats lost their majorities. And Naomi Wolf’s advice helped Clinton and Gore achieve this victory; it was her insight to have Clinton pose frequently with groups of children and depict himself as America’s "good father," a symbolic position held by George Washington before this slick propagandist womanipulated it.

But the Democrats’ increase in female support has been mirrored by a loss of male support. One recent poll found that Al Gore, waging a relentless effort to appeal to women, finally broke a longstanding tie and inched five points ahead of George W. Bush among females. But this same poll found that Gore has fallen 21 points behind Bush among male voters. The national media say little about this gender gap.

This translates to a gender gap between men and women of 26 points between the two presumptive candidates to be our next president. The social implications of such a widening rift may be huge and threaten to shred our social fabric.

We rightly condemn racists such as David Duke for fomenting racial divisions between whites and blacks in our politics, recognizing that it promotes hatred and the Balkanizing of America. Is it any different when the Democratic Party plays the "sex card" and foments sexual differences between men and women, insulting male values and institutions to win the votes of women? Do we really want elections decided in a battle of the sexes between the "male" political party and the "female" party? When one such party wins with these divide-and-conquer politics, what compromise or common ground can be reached with the opposition? Can’t we all just get along?

Scientists have discovered that in one high primate species, females are dominant. This happens among Bonobo, or pygmy, chimpanzees, our "closest relatives," with DNA almost 99 percent identical to that of humans. In Bonobo groups, the females gang up on and attack any assertive male. Civil order comes through making love, not war. Bonobos engage in sexual intercourse several times each day, using sex with one and all instead of grooming to achieve social bonding, relieve social tensions, and remain peaceful. Young male Bonobos engage in intercourse with their mothers and other group females from infancy. Come to think of it, it’s rather like the society Naomi Wolf advocates in her latest book Promiscuities and other writings. She has called for teaching our young children sexual-gratification techniques in public schools, much as former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was fired for doing prior to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Wolf wants to do this "for the children" and for a political party we could call "Bonobocrats."

(Two other things should be noted about feminist Bonobo chimpanzees. They are among the most intelligent of animals, even sharing learned social rituals in a way that some scientists label "culture." And in their native habitat, Bonobos are on the brink of extinction, their intelligence and "culture" having failed to give them the ability to adapt to a changing world.)

We have created an oddly similar situation in America’s inner cities. The typical household there consists of an unwed mother and her children. Roughly 70 percent of children there are born to single mothers. The role of father as provider belongs to the government, which sends welfare checks and provides public housing. Young men born to such mothers grow up with no role, except as an occasional sperm donor to make more babies and bolster the "Great White Father in Washington" welfare checks. These young men grow up with no male role models except drug pushers, pimps, poverty pimps like Jesse Jackson, and politicians like Bill Clinton who act as if every woman getting a government check is part of their personal harem.

And the Democratic Party feeds, vulture-like, on this social carnage and carnality.

It targets its appeal on inner-city mothers dependent on welfare and on suburban divorcees who want the welfare state to be there as a husband substitute. Many of these suburban women, while still married, voted for Clinton–Gore, not understanding that their loud support for Clinton was a signal to their own husbands and sons that adultery is acceptable behavior.

In Scotland, the welfare state has produced a similar infantilization and emasculation that de-moralizes society. The October 31 London Sunday Times reported that the UK Men’s Movement has proposed compulsory school courses on manhood to teach Scottish boys about integrity and heroism and provide a rite of passage to adult status. This might work better for Al Gore than paying feminist Naomi Wolf $15,000 a month to teach him how to pretend to be a man.

Al Gore appears destined always to be a Second Class Male. His willingness to get an image makeover from Wolf, to be remolded like the plastic person he is, merely confirms the judgment of columnist Richard Cohen that "Gore is beta all the way." As Cohen wrote in the November 2 Washington Post, "Do not be surprised if, at some Rose Garden event, [Gore] bares his teeth at Clinton or—in a suit selected by Wolf—sniffs him." Gore may learn to act like a dog, but he will never acquire animal magnetism. Gore, like a good Beta, nowadays tells people that he is an "underdog," as well as under Wolf.

"Al Gore is an ‘Omega male’," says House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R.-Texas), referring to the doomsday final letter of the Greek alphabet. Indeed, if the Democrats are now America’s "female" party, how much longer will its women voters be content to have patronizing drone males as their candidates? Hillary, the closest thing to an Alpha male in the Clinton White House, has quietly taken the legal steps that qualify her as a Presidential candidate in Y2K.

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LAST SEPTEMBER, former Arkansas bodyguard Larry Patterson described Governor and Mrs. Clinton’s frequent use of anti-Semitic epithets when they quarreled. Now former Clinton tactical wizard Dick Morris, on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes, relates that Hillary frequently teased him about eating pork. Morris, Jewish by birth, tells that during a heated discussion about how much he was to be paid, Hillary blurted out angrily: "That’s all you people care about is money!"

When Reform Party candidate Ross Perot made a "you people" reference before a black group, the media tarred and feathered him for it. Pundits have called Pat Buchanan an anti-Semite, citing as evidence similar and even milder statements. The national media seem unwilling to raise the question whether Hillary secretly deep down inside hates Jews.

The First Lady was unavailable for comment. She has been away on a taxpayer-funded campaign tour of Israel. Those who run for U.S. Senate in New York are expected to tour the "Three I’s," Ireland, Italy, and Israel.

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ONE ALPHA MALE DEMOCRAT emerged on the national scene in the November 2 elections. In San Francisco, write-in white candidate Tom Ammiano came in second and in mid-December will face incumbent African-American Mayor Willy Brown in a run-off.

Ammiano is president of the Board of Supervisors in the Duchy of San Francisco. A stand-up comedian, a stand-up gay activist, and inspiration for thousands of Castro District followers known as "Tom Boys," Ammiano advocates a host of radical changes in government policy that make ultraliberal Mayor Brown seem almost moderate.

Ammiano wants insurance companies to foot the $10,000–$30,000 bill for the sex-change operation of any city employee desiring one. (And, doubtless, to pay for related risks such as the Oklahoma man in the midst of a sex change who, in a November 3 court appearance, claimed that "gender confusion" caused him to shoot a man in a fit of road rage. Should it worry us that Al Gore appears to have deep self-doubt resembling "gender confusion," and a desire to be at one with female yearnings, that has prompted his costly clinging to Naomi Wolf?)

Ammiano reportedly wants a surtax on the "rich" to confiscate any income they make above $150,000 per year (e.g., Naomi Wolf).

Ammiano reportedly wants to require all parents to send their children to public schools. He effectively would close private and parochial schools, and make government schools a compulsory monopoly where his values will be taught.

Tom Ammiano, in other words, may be the only honest Democrat politician running for high office in America today. What Bill and Hillary, Al and Bill, and other liberal Democrats are working to impose by stealth and deception, Ammiano advocates openly. Will Al Gore embrace him? In private, certainly. Will Ammiano win? In San Francisco, he’ll come in first. Mayor Ammiano may soon replace Wolf as Gore’s image-bending left-hand man. Come what may, to see what Democrats look like with their disguises off, look at Tom Ammiano.

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VETERAN DEMOCRAT POLLSTER Pat Caddell told Chris Matthews on MSNBC/CNBC’s Hardball that Bill Clinton might "subconsciously" want Al Gore to lose in the 2000 election. If Gore wins, Clinton plummets from Alpha to Omega dog status in American politics, said Caddell. But if Gore loses, then as its most recent president Bill Clinton remains titular head of the Democratic Party. It’s a dog-eat-dog world.