This year’s long and divisive battle for the presidency is just about over.Tomorrow is Election Day And not a moment too soon.
And while certain elements of this campaign have been unique, even unprecedented, much of it has in fact been, for lack of a better term, business as usual.
Longtime Texas-based political columnist Molly Ivins made her living critiquing that business. And Molly was never reticent about pointing out the emperor’s lack of new clothes
She and I had several conversations over several years, including the one you’re about to hear, from 2004.
Ivins had just published a collection of some of her columns, and the book came out in the midst of the 2004 presidential campaign.
When we spoke that summer, John Kerry had already secured the democratic presidential nomination to run against incumbent Republican George W Bush, but the Democratic convention was still about two weeks away.
But see if you don’t agree that so much of what she was talking about 20 years ago doesn’t sound just like she could have said it last week.
So here now, from 2004, Molly Ivins.
Molly Ivins died in 2007 at age 62.