Ah, yes, Tom, for the days when the Republican presidential candidate pool was filled with, as Mark Steyn once put it, decent, dignified losers who knew how to give a great concession speech. Isn’t it a shame some of us got tired of that (not the decent and dignified part, everything after that)? Bad us! Bad! Bad!
That’s exactly what I was thinking. The “good old days” when republicans were back benchers who knew their place, were nice and went out with democrats for a beer after work. Notice how after the repubs took over in 1995, (after 40 frickin’ years of dem control) how the “tone” in Washington changed. Only when repubs are in charge, is the political atmosphere poisonous.