National Review's Rich Lowry digs up the transcript of a January 23, 2000 interview in which candidate George W. Bush explicitly promises to veto McCain - Feingold - style campaign finance reform, and compares the whole situation to that faced by another President Bush: "This is exactly the double whammy that Bush Sr. experienced when he capitulated on taxes. It wasn't just the effect of the policy that hurt Bush, but the damage it did to his political character in the mind of the public." Strong stuff from a friend of the Administration.
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