If you had muted your television this campaign season and watched only the images, it would have looked as if 2002 was a fantasy match-up between George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. There was Bush standing beside some unfamiliar Republican face; here was Bill Clinton with some Dem youd never heard of. This may seem hard to remember (or believe), but Clinton was once a very popular politician--yet Bush-backed candidates everywhere stomped Clintons picks as if the Clintonites were the second coming of Walter Mondale. (The literal second coming of Walter Mondale did not do so well either.)
Instead of making Americans nostalgic for the prosperity of the 1990s, the sight of Clintons face seems to have reminded Americans of the irresponsibility that left the country unsafe and unprepared against terror..
Amen.
50 posted on 11/06/2002 5:20:33 AM PST by Bitwhacker