"When positive imagery about your own candidate proves insufficient, negative ads about your opponent are the only alternative."–"Tricky" Dick Gephardt, "An Even Better Place" Watergate II, like the original, represents an attack on the chief feature of this democratic republic: free and fair elections. It involved a series of burglaries, wiretaps, possible violations of campaign financing laws, sabotage and the attempted use of government agencies to harm a political opponent. It allegedly was orchestrated – not to help a president – but by a man who is looking to become president, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt. Gephardt is thought to...