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Regrets, they're had a few.(Up Front)(political campaigns)

American Prospect, The,  May, 2007  by Meyerson, Harold

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AS GOOD AMERICAN CONSUMERS, WE'VE ALL LIKELY experienced buyer's remorse. But in 2007, seller's remorse--not to mention smearer's remorse--seems a special attribute of Republican campaign operatives and funders.

In mid-February, The New York Times reported that the architects of the Destroy-the-Clintons-by-All-Means-Possible operation of the 1990s had thought it over and concluded, well, that they'd been wrong. Richard Mellon Scaife, the gazillionaire who spent over $2 million publicizing the Clintons' involvement, however fictitious, in drug running, murder, and scandalous ...

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