Here’s an interesting article in The Atlantic about GOP operative Lee Atwater’s deathbed confession about how he wrecked the presidential candidacy of former Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado in the 1987 election eventually won by Bush Sr. Hart was favored to win the Democratic nomination and had an early one-point lead over Bush in early polls.
The sad part to this story is that nobody learned what Atwater figured out when faced by death — that the kind of dirty politics he practiced would hurt the country. We live in a world where the atmosphere is poisoned by his disciples.
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