Let's quit while we're behind.

The article presents personal insight on U.S. elections. The 2006 mid-term elections is about to end and the 2008 presidential campaign is about to begin. In 2000, the author wrote in a vote for George Herbert Walker Bush, for whom he worked as a speechwriter from 1981 to 1983. What a wrench it must be for him to pick up his paper every morning and read the now-daily debate about whether his son is officially the worst president in U.S. history.