WI: The Republicans nominate an anti-Department of Education candidate in 2000

What if, perhaps as a result of Dubya not running, the Republicans nominate someone who opposes No Child Left Behind and perhaps even wants to abolish the Department of Education?
 
Well, they did in 96, and Clinton made Dole pay on the issue. It's a hard position to articulate, because his reasons for opposing it were more naunced than "Bob Dole hates spending money on education!" but the topline of "Bob Dole wants to close the Department of Ed" is an easy attack for people to quickly understand.
 
from Governor Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican Convention Aug. 3, 2000

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=123214&page=1

' . . . This is discrimination, pure and simple -- the soft bigotry of low expectations.

'And our nation should treat it like other forms of discrimination ... we should end it. . . '
Now, this was put in the context of conservative proposals to education. But all the same, kind of amazing and a very good thing that anyone said this, left, right, or center.

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An anti-Dept. of Education candidate would be a very different candidate than Gov. George W. Bush.
 
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