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Give me a break. It ain't Noonan's fault that Bush Sr LIED. It ain't Noonan's fault that Bush Sr. chose to believe his advisors at the time and the Republican leadership in the house that thought it was kewl to raise taxes. I remember Quayle's spirited dissent on this matter and how he eventually agreed to the tax increase to keep the Republican party together. That's when I think about the "baneful spirit of party" as being deadly accurate. If anything, W has learned from his fathers' mistakes, which one of the big ones was a failure to embrace supply-side economics.

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Yes, I agree with most of what you said. But it was Noonan who came up with that catchy one liner that Bush used ad nauseum during the campaign. It made for a perfect sound bite for the Dems four years later. Noonan had no control over what Bush did, of course. But it shows how clumsy Bush was on domestic issues.