Opinion: The Perfect Platform

OPINION The Perfect Platform Amid all the Republican noncandidates, Clare Boothe Luce last week went out of her way to reveal that she too is not a candidate. In a witty, Associated Press interview, the former Connecticut Congresswoman and U.S. Ambassador to Italy quipped: "I'd enter the New Hampshire primary in a minute if I had a campaign manager, an organization and a political base. I've certainly got the program." That program turned out to be, at the very least, that rarity in American politics—crackling satire. Among its planks: > I am...

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