Fool me thrice By Vox Day
I was not writing this column during the campaign prior to the 2000 election, but I did follow the battles for the Republican nomination with some interest. I found it hard to believe after eight years of the William Jefferson Clinton circus, the American people would wish for symbolic continuation of his presidency.
Unfortunately, the Republican candidates on offer were a lightweight collection of conservative no-hopers, moderate Republican establishment figures and one popular governor of a large Southern state. That governor, George W. Bush, understandably looked like the only reasonable choice, and if his conspicuously non-ideological language was suspiciously protean, it made it easy for Conservatives to see in him whatever they wanted to see. (I didn't buy it and did not vote for him. But I understand why many people did.)
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