If George W. Bush wins the G.O.P. nomination, he may remember the afternoon he spent in the backwoods of upstate South Carolina as the moment he turned his campaign around. It was Thursday, Feb. 10, and before the weekend began the Bush team desperately wanted to respond to an ad John McCain was airing in which McCain accused Bush of "twisting the truth like Clinton." The ad gave Bush an opportunity, a chance to take McCain's biggest selling point--his image as an outsider who was above politics as usual--and use it against him.
The Governor was speaking that afternoon at the...
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