Some Republicans have called the revelation of George W. Bush’s irrelevant DWI arrest back in 1976 a “dirty trick” by the Democratic camp. An article over at Tom Paine provides a real example of a dirty trick in politics that actually cost Grover Cleveland the 1888 Presidential election. A Republican operative fabricated a letter that inflamed the Irish in New York, costing Cleveland that state and the election.
Some Republicans have called the revelation of George W. Bush’s irrelevant DWI arrest back in 1976 a “dirty trick” by the Democratic camp. An article over at Tom Paine provides a real example of a dirty trick in politics that actually cost Grover Cleveland the 1888 Presidential election. A Republican operative fabricated a letter that inflamed the Irish in New York, costing Cleveland that state and the election.
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