How Gore Can Win

Bracing for disaster

FIVE years ago, the Wall Street Journal predicted, “Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican nominee who doesn’t drool on stage.” If politics were football, this would have been the sort of statement Team Clinton might have posted on its locker-room bulletin board. Today the line is recognized as a classic example of reading from a broken crystal ball. Bob Dole fell off a stage once, but he was never seen drooling on one. In fact, he hasn’t been seen anywhere at all recently, except in Viagra ads.

About the Author

John J. Miller

John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.

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Bracing for disaster

FIVE years ago, the Wall Street Journal predicted, “Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican nominee who doesn’t drool on stage.” If politics were football, this would have been the sort of statement Team Clinton might have posted on its locker-room bulletin board. Today the line is recognized as a classic example of reading from a broken crystal ball. Bob Dole fell off a stage once, but he was never seen drooling on one. In fact, he hasn’t been seen anywhere at all recently, except in Viagra ads.

About the Author

John J. Miller

John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.