Bush-Bennett 2000

That’s the ticket

ON Super Tuesday, when George W. Bush clinched the nomination, some of us on television speculated about his running mate. The ideal complement to the Texas governor, I suggested, would be a cerebral, articulate Catholic with a little silver in his hair. Who else but Bill Bennett? Now, Bennett doesn’t like the idea. Bush has shown no sign that he is moving that way. And so it will likely not happen. But that wouldn’t be the first time the GOP took the wrong path. As Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed said in 1896, when asked whether the party might nominate him for president, “They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.”

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That’s the ticket

ON Super Tuesday, when George W. Bush clinched the nomination, some of us on television speculated about his running mate. The ideal complement to the Texas governor, I suggested, would be a cerebral, articulate Catholic with a little silver in his hair. Who else but Bill Bennett? Now, Bennett doesn’t like the idea. Bush has shown no sign that he is moving that way. And so it will likely not happen. But that wouldn’t be the first time the GOP took the wrong path. As Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed said in 1896, when asked whether the party might nominate him for president, “They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.”