FROM THE
NOVEMBER 6, 2000 ISSUE

RAMESH PONNURU
Gore on the Run

EDITORIAL
NR Endorses George W. Bush

he Editors of National Review will vote, on Tuesday, November 7, for George W. Bush for President, and we urge the faithful to do the same.

The (very) late Bishop Butler, acknowledging a protest again Christian canon, said three hundred years ago that, to be sure, if he had been God, he'd have made things a little bit different. If the editors of NR had been present at the creation, we'd have struck a finer tuning fork to guide George W. But the choice is as it is, and conservatives need to abide by what was a fair and open process that concluded this political season with a significant national choice.

Vice President Gore is a demagogue who curries envy and fashions policy to the end of promoting central government as agent of health, prosperity, and education. His policies, on deliberation, distill, then curdle. The call now is for a rejection of self-infatuated exhibitionism, in favor of a more modest statesman, aware of his own limitations and those of aggrandized government.

We hope that November 7 will end the reign of Clinton/Gore, and bring on a better, cleaner politics under George W. Bush.