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    Ungodly Ad Ends Dole's Career

    Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:07 PM | By Melinda Henneberger
    On the positive side for Elizabeth Dole, she never again has to endure being called "Liddy," a nickname she's been trying to shed at least as far back as the first story I ever read about her, in which I distinctly remember her being referred to as "still turning heads at 43.'' Unfortunately, her new name is "the former senator'' of North Carolina. And though I've always liked her, she earned it the old-fashioned way, by working hard to disregard her better instincts with ads that accused her Democratic opponent, former Sunday-school teacher Kay Hagan, of palling around with "Godless Americans.'' Sitting here with my own team of analysts—including my door-knocking 12-year-old daughter, who just yawned, "There's a surprise," when Georgia was called for McCain—it occurs to me that I am not so much after a repudiation of conservatism as I am an end to meanness. And the ad that ended Dole's career? That was just ungodly.
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