[Alberta's Child]

Bush 41 lost the 1992 election because he was an aloof, detached, dull man who had less charisma than a dog turd.

[SamAdams76]

Bush 41 lost the 1992 election because he was an aloof, detached, dull man who had less charisma than a dog turd.

Agreed and I maintain that he would not have won in 1988 either had he not run against an even more aloof, detached dull man with no charisma (Dukakis).

In fact, the biggest beneficiary of the Gary Hart/Donna Rice affair was perhaps George HW Bush!

For I think Gary Hart would have easily beaten him.

[ought-six]

I remember the 1992 election very well, and I also remember repeatedly saying that Bush was acting like his heart was not in winning re-election. In 1992 he ran the most tepid and aloof presidential campaign in American history, even moreso than Bob Dole’s pathetic run four years later.