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...smart to be a good liar, and Democrats like to lie in a visionary sort of way. The founding visionary of the modern Democratic Party, Franklin Roosevelt, was one of its most artful and charming shavers of the truth. There were giants on the earth in those days. Lyndon Johnson's mendacities achieved an infuriating magnificence, like King Lear playing three-card monte on the heath...
Consider the great Democratic lies. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson was elected on a promise not to involve America in the European war. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt was elected on a promise not to involve America in the European war. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was elected on a promise not to involve America further in an Asian war that it was, he said, the job of Asian boys to fight. (You remember that Goldwater in that contest was the wild man warmonger...
...long ago, George W. Bush decided to become, like Lyndon Johnson before him, a ranch owner. But few outside Texas have understood what a revealing decision that...
...prisoner of his family legacy. Owning a ranch is homage to a past that must be easier to honor than it would have been to live in. It's walking in the footsteps of a father and a grandfather--not his Connecticut father and grandfather but, sweet irony, Lyndon Johnson's. Johnson's ranch was where he began. Bush's is where he has chosen...
...qualifies for his subsidized savings accounts signs on for them, the program could consume $600 billion in the next decade - three times what Gore assumes. In one of his bolder debate lines, Bush warned that Gore is "going to grow the Federal Government in the largest increase since Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1965. We're talking about a massive government, folks. We're talking about adding to or increasing 200 new programs, 20,000 new bureaucrats...