From: Monte Davis 

John Cuccia  wrote:

>... no they didn't really misunderstand, they knew deep in their
> hearts that it was all a lie,
> but they didn't care.

Echoed in the remorseless dissection at economist Brad DeLong's blog today:

http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/

"Peggy Noonan and the rest of the plastic Republican chattering teeth
did not think back in 2000 that Bush's "compassionate
conservatism" meant that he was a spender, they thought it meant that
he was a liar
-- and that they were in on the con."

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