It is traditional for liberals to believe that conservatives are stupid, and that conservative politicians like Reagan or Bush (who are, of course, also stupid) can only win elections by luck, by fooling people, or by appealing to them with their personalities or good looks. They're not clever enough to use sleazy or criminal election-stealing techniques. That takes a Democrat.

They comfort themselves endlessly with this, since the only alternative is to believe that intelligent people vote for conservatives because they agree with their ideas and principles. This has the potential of forcing liberals to gaze into that "dark place in their minds into which they do not wish to look:"

Maybe the conservatives are right?

On the other hand, Bowser thinks Clinton sucks, which at least gets him some points for independent thinking above the plane of many knee-jerk liberals.

Speaking of 2000, for a good time, check this out.