artbrooks,
I always thought the same thing. Interesting to hear it from someone else. I think he would have won 2000 in a landslide if he had resigned during the Clinton term. Not having done so called his own motives into question and saddled him with a "Fordian" character.

By the way, he was hilarious on SNL. The little bit of racist (anti-hispanic) humor, while very funny, I do think would have been a bit burdensome to explain during a presidential campaign.