[uncbob]

Bush owes the 2000 election to Elian Conzalez

[Verginius Rufus]

Bush was set to win by several million votes until the DUI story surfaced, on the Thursday before election day, and the media spent the weekend obsessing over it.

Someone on FR theorized that knowledge of the DUI came from G.H.W. Bush's FBI file (remember Hillary borrowing hundreds of FBI files of Republicans who were supposedly being considered for appointments in the Clinton administration?)--the file could have included something about his son. The incident was so old that someone moseying around the courthouse in Maine would not have found it unless they knew about it ahead of time. It's a plausible scenario...but I don't know if we know that Bush 41's file was among the purloined FBI files.

[Verginius Rufus]

Bush was set to win by several million votes until the DUI story surfaced, on the Thursday before election day, and the media spent the weekend obsessing over it.

Someone on FR theorized that knowledge of the DUI came from G.H.W. Bush's FBI file (remember Hillary borrowing hundreds of FBI files of Republicans who were supposedly being considered for appointments in the Clinton administration?)--the file could have included something about his son. The incident was so old that someone moseying around the courthouse in Maine would not have found it unless they knew about it ahead of time. It's a plausible scenario...but I don't know if we know that Bush 41's file was among the purloined FBI files.