In some of his greatest writing, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson covered the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, whom he famously savaged. Now, Thompson is back on the presidential campaign beat for Rolling Stone, and in this report, “Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004,” he finds himself looking back to that previous story. “Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush,” he says. “Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him? If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a ‘liberal’ candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today—and who will be running it this time next year, if we don’t rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd.”