31.   The Clinton-Republican death struggle is the political equivalent of the Iran-Iraq war.

32.   The maneuvers required to accomplish that are the political equivalent of performing a Tennessee square dance in a telephone booth.

33.   The most famous case of a Texan being the political equivalent of all hat and no cattle is John B. Connally.

34.   The plan will generate the political equivalent of a Great Plains twister.

35.   They lie, but they do it engagingly, with pretty words and lots of embraces, the political equivalent of flowers and chocolate.

36.   To some, this is the political equivalent of a summer action thriller.

37.   When it comes to helping out, he is the political equivalent of Typhoid Mary at a cookout.

38.   When it began last fall, it was the political equivalent of holy war.

39.   Who could blame foreigners for feeling that these candidates were the political equivalents of genetically modified food?

40.   Whichever way you look at it, Tibet is the political equivalent of a baby seal being clubbed by a predator in front of an uncaring world.