Nugget, buried deep
Jul. 7th, 2004 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoNick Kristof has a column in the NYT today about about Kerry's pick of John Edwards.
But the real nugget comes toward the end, and is about Jorge:
"Mr. Bush lost his first political battle, for Congress in 1978, when his opponent, Kent Hance, portrayed him as an overeducated elitist carpetbagger who didn't know Texas. Mr. Hance later told me that for Mr. Bush, the lesson was that "he wasn't going to be out-Christianed or out-good-old-boyed again.""
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. The scales fall from my eyes.
Of course, Mr. Hance is just as right now as he was then. But, as Kristof adds, "Just wait: Mr. Edwards has the same populist charm as Mr. Hance, and I'd bet that Mr. Bush is about to be out-good-old-boyed again."
America can but hope.
But the real nugget comes toward the end, and is about Jorge:
"Mr. Bush lost his first political battle, for Congress in 1978, when his opponent, Kent Hance, portrayed him as an overeducated elitist carpetbagger who didn't know Texas. Mr. Hance later told me that for Mr. Bush, the lesson was that "he wasn't going to be out-Christianed or out-good-old-boyed again.""
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. The scales fall from my eyes.
Of course, Mr. Hance is just as right now as he was then. But, as Kristof adds, "Just wait: Mr. Edwards has the same populist charm as Mr. Hance, and I'd bet that Mr. Bush is about to be out-good-old-boyed again."
America can but hope.
