Abortion's back. Not that it ever exactly disappeared as a political issue, but it did lapse into an extended period of blessed quiet, like a bear hibernating. Alas, a grizzly.
Anti-abortion leaders, aware he was on their side, let George W. Bush campaign for the presidency without having to make the repeated and histrionic obeisance to them that they had demanded of previous Republican candidates, to the detriment, on balance, of their campaigns.
The silence gave Al Gore little to make hay of and, in kind with the rest of his flailing campaign, he never figured out how to work the issue to his advantage. (Democrats must be groaning at recent indications Gore …
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