Former Republican senator from Wyoming Alan Simpson attended Tuesday’s debate between Vice-Presidential candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards. During an interview after the refreshingly contentious debate, Mr. Simpson waxed nostalgic about the bygone days in which such contentiousness was the norm in such political exchanges, such as the time that Republican Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon in 1957 called his “distinguished colleague” Republican Sen. Homer Capehart of Indiana “a tub of rancid ignorance.”