Letters to the Editor
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It's been a long time since the taking the lowest road didn't win
I was six years old when Jimmy Carter won the presidency. So what did I know? Nothing, but it felt like a good thing because I knew Watergate was bad. Ms Walsh called this one for Rove not because he took the low road, but because Rove knows how to tweak American sensibilities better than any political strategist since...ever? She called it in Rove's favor because taking the lowest road has led to decades of expanding republican power. That's minus the Clinton years, but Clinton wasn't exactly a victory for the high road. He was victory for charm and centrist, republican-lite politics. But compared to what we've suffered under George W. Bush, a fiscally responsible republican-lite president would be a god send. And maybe that's why Mrs. Clinton is running as exactly that.