read my lips

This is the ad that, maybe more than anything else, most likely sank President George H. W. Bush’s chances for re-election. Of course, it was those tax increases that made way for years of balanced budgets under Clinton, but don’t tell anybody. And, of course, that raising the gas tax was maybe just a little before its time, not to mention a policy many progressives want to further. But, it was a really, really effective ad. This is  exactly the script I bet the Republican nominee will use in 2012.

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