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National | Thompson hearings die the death of ignorance and apathy | Cal Thomas

One day after Sen. Fred Thompson raised the white flag in his hearings that were to have exposed the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign as a monument to sleaze and unprecedented illegalities, Bill Clinton was running a victory lap at the Amelia Island, Fla., resort. Fifty fat cats paid $50,000 each to schmooze with the president. Two and a half million dollars went to Democratic campaign coffers that have been sorely depleted because so much foreign money had to be returned after questions were raised about its origin.

In what may be a new low even for this administration, the president told the donors: "The party with the most money wins." Whatever became of "the party with the best ideas wins"? Victory is now secured when one side outspends the other on TV ads, not when one side out-debates the other.