Even though Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton was in favor of raising taxes, even though the Democrat Party was in favor of raising taxes, even though the mainstream media was in favor of raising taxes, that was not the point. Therefore, their own desire to raise our taxes did nothing to stop all three of those groups from mercilessly beating President George H.W. Bush senseless over one of the most famous promises and infamous broken promises of the modern political era.
The year was 1988. The place was the Republican National Convention in New Orleans. Bush, who was then a sitting Vice President for Ronald Reagan, accepted his party’s nomination and uttered the following words, reportedly written by speechwriter Peggy Noonan:
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