Hating Bush Is Not A Winning Ticket
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Ask the Clinton haters of '98: Hitting too hard can backfire
By Jonathan Alter
Newsweek
Aug. 2 issue - Linda Ronstadt had a little problem at the Aladdin
casino in Las Vegas last week. After she dedicated her song
"Desperado" to Michael Moore and described him as "an American hero,"
patrons began booing and heading for the exits, with some throwing
their drinks against her posters on the way out. Of course, most
others in the hall that night and in the country as a whole can't
understand why the committed partisans on both sides are so rabid, and
they hardly find it entertaining. Don't be surprised to read this fall
about barroom brawls over the finer points of Iraq policy, which may
be better than fighting about football or "What you lookin' at?" but
hardly represents the civil debate we had reason to expect in the
first presidential election since September 11.
Jonathan Alter
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