Given the fact that by late 2000, it was pretty obvious that we were going into recession, that the current President had been impeached and was ostracized by the Gore campaign, that the sleaze was cascading (and would culminate in the pardons of the Puerto Rican terrorists, and the fugitive Rich), that the recent attacks on our embassies and the USS Cole had revealed that the U.S. either could not or would not respond to radical Islamic terrorists, did anyone—the Boston Globe, a NY Times columnist?—suggest that Bill Clinton step aside in late November and let the new team take over to save the country another two months of the Clinton limbo?

PS: I doubt the Bush people will be taking keys off White House computer keyboards.