Ann Richards on "how to debate Bush"

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Interview in the Capital Times.

Kerry, like Richards and other Democrats who have faced Bush in past debates, probably knows too much.
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Richards said she believes Democrats can win the old-fashioned way, by just turning out more voters than Republicans. But she acknowledges the possibility that the political machine that Bush has created may carry the day.

"If we in this country have become the kind of people that we don't want to know anything more than some simplistic answer or non-answer to questions, then God help us," she said. "If we want to elect people to public office whose whole purpose and goal is to avoid controversy and avoid answering the tough questions about government, then we're in terrible shape."