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Julian Sanchez | February 23, 2005

Unless there's an 8.5 minute gap we haven't heard about, the recently released secret recordings of George Bush are pretty humdrum. All to the good, says Nick Gillespie.

Comments

|2.23.05 @ 3:53PM|#

[H]e wasn't supposed to beat Al Gore for the presidency of the United States

And he didn't.

|2.23.05 @ 3:54PM|#

An 8 1/2 minute gap? At the risk of showing I'm old enough to remember Watergate, I wonder whether you mean an 18 1/2 minute gap.

|2.23.05 @ 4:09PM|#

Maybe Julian was thinking about Monica's gaping maw and mixed his metaphors.

|2.23.05 @ 4:19PM|#

Wasn't the gap in the Nixon tapes seventeen minutes?

Is there a significance to the Fifty percent?

Are you saying Bush is a halfwit? (halfpint?)

Ayn_Randian|2.23.05 @ 6:32PM|#

Memo to Ersatz:

The Electoral College exists. Get over it.

|2.23.05 @ 6:52PM|#

Bush does seem like a genuine guy. I disagree with a lot that he has doen, but he does seem like a genuine dude. Much like McCain, I have to say I am totally opposed to the McCain-Feingold, and some of his other shenanigans, but he is an admirable guy.

|2.23.05 @ 7:03PM|#

Ayn: Since the poster's name was Ersatz Joe, I think he was parodying our resident liberal, joe.

The Lonewacko Blog|2.23.05 @ 9:42PM|#

Perhaps this is just a wee bit of political theater designed to distract us from Gannongate.

|2.24.05 @ 3:43AM|#

No doubt, it's been very hard to keep distracted from that riveting scandal.

A-choo

So what were we talking about again?

|2.24.05 @ 11:36AM|#

Er, it was my understanding that only a little bit had been released, and some of that might only have been transcripts?

|2.24.05 @ 4:40PM|#

As noted elsewhere, Rove must stop these recording from getting out, lest Bush's approval ratings get above 60-70%.