If sen. phil gramm loses the Republican nomination for president because—as he admitted last week—he once invested $7,500 in a failed project to make a T&A movie called "Beauty Queens," at least no one will be able to accuse him of betraying his principles. To be sure, the dour, single-minded Gramm seems an unlikely candidate to get into trouble over women. Most politicians do this sort of thing more straightforwardly. In fact, on the very day Gramm acknowledged his brief soft-core foray (in response to an article in The New Republic) the Senate Ethics Committee released accusations that Gramm's colleague Bob Packwood had for years been trying to stick his tongue into the mouths of women who wandered unescorted into his office. But Gramm was true to his principles as one of America's most uncompromising advocates of free-market enterprise. When he saw naked women in a movie, according to his former brother-in-law George Caton, his first instinct was to ask how can I make monev from this?
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