[Amelia]

Now what can we say about George? We were right; you were wrong.

I never thought that George was a "true conservative"...but I knew he was a sight more conservative than Al Gore (maybe saner too) and I remembered 1992.

[jammer]

Hmmm. I really began to believe that he was. He DID pick Cheney. I definitely agree about saner than Gore. Gore's deficiency goes beyond the socially bizarre to perhaps the pathological.

Anyway, I have espoused a theory for a couple of years that the country and conservatism was better off with Klinton as prez than we would have been with Bush I. That's grist for another thread, but I have yet to be effectively refuted, IMO. It started as an inchoate idea I threw out and, as I had to defend it, it seemed more and more reasonable, not only from developing the idea but from the few lame "rebuttals". Anyway, if I can make this link work--I am terrible--I recommend this week's Fred on Everything. He tells it just about exactly the way I see it (advance apologies if it doesn't work--you'll have to cut and paste).

http://www.fredoneverything.net/TheAmericanCircus.shtml