08-27-2018, 11:22 AM
(08-27-2018, 11:14 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: This is all an interesting conversation to me because the 2000 election was one where I was paying zero attention. I was 15 that year and more concerned about other things. So the Clinton years and the election of 2000 are things I don't know much about. Discussions like these cause me to look into it and it's always enlightening for me.
McCain was running a great campaign, one that wasn't beholden to any of your traditional GOP power centers such as the religious right. W was foundering and Karl Rove ran an add in one of the Carolina's (South iirc) accusing McCain of having an illegitimate black child. The child in question is his adopted Indian daughter. The damage was done, he lost that primary to W handily and W grabbed the momentum and never looked back.
That's why I have such disdain for Rove and W. The amount of borderline fond recollection of W by many celebrities nauseates me. The man did more damage to our country than any other president by leaps and bounds. I suppose his "Aww shucks" demeanor is more palatable to some.
