Given how often Bush revealed his ignorance, you could be forgiven for wondering how the hell he got elected governor in 1994. The narrative advanced by Bush partisans was that he dazzled Texans in a televised debate with the incumbent Democrat, Ann Richards. (The race was something of a grudge match for Bush, since the salty Richards had landed that “silver foot” zinger about W.’s dad at the 1988 DNC.) The truth is a little more complicated.
