Gore in '04?

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>>Chicago Sun-Times - May 9, 2002
>>>
>>>Who'll stop Gore in '04?
>>>BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
>>
>>First Jude Wanniski and now this!
>>
>>Are you aware of how many mystical Eastern mental disciplines I 
>>have to immerse myself in before I dare begin to read such people? 
>>I need to be prepared, not to have them just show up in my inbox!
>
>Novak is vile, but if he's reporting the thinking of senior Dems 
>accurately, don't you think that's worth knowing?
>
>Doug

A big "if." In the early 90s, Dole's staff had a nickname for Evans 
and Novak--Errors and No Facts. "You've got to realize," one of them 
said to me once, "that what Novak writes bears a completely random 
relationship to the truth. It's not that he has a principled stand 
against telling the truth--if telling the truth is the thing he 
thinks will advance his ball furthest, he'll do that. But if a 
half-truth or a lie will serve his strategic purposes better, he'll 
prefer that."

Brad DeLong