I agree with that.
I’ll say this also, if you can’t beat the likes of Gore and Kerry by a wide margin, you’re a chump.
We can also thank Karl Rove in part for the 2008 Real Estate melt-down. Bush’s more rational advisers were pushing him to reform GSE and restrict subsidies and guaranteed loans for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, because they recognized that a policy of providing home mortgages to insolvent individuals who had no hope of ever honoring their debts was a recipe for disaster. Karl Rove advised Bush that restricting home mortgage lending to poor “minorities” would make the GOP look bad in election years, so the administration chose to do nothing and let the GSE’s financial cancer grow.