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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (7951)	10/20/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

He's a jerk and a hypocrite. bp

To: DMaA who wrote (7951)	10/21/1999 3:53:00 AM
From: Gary M. Reed	Respond to of 769670

Agreed, McCain sometimes sounds and acts like he is in left field. His two main agendas are campaign finance reform (yawn) and abortion. He must not realize that heavy reliance on the abortion topic has "aborted" too many Republican campaigns in the past. I don't care if you're for or against abortion, the bottom line is that most mainstream voters don't care about it either way, at least enough to influence their votes. It is only a huge issue for ardent Right-to-Lifers, and let's face it, if a GOP candidate was soft on abortion, I hardly think the Right-to-Lifers would vote Democrat as a protest. Let's see, the two GOP candidates making the biggest issue of abortion this year (besides McCain) are Steve Forbes and Pat Buchanan...and I don't see people beating the door down en masse to support them. When you make it your main agenda, the mainstream picture you as some right-wing religious fanatic. Bush's delicate handling of this issue has been perfect as far as I'm concerned. The fact that McCain spends the majority of his efforts on campaign reform and abortion, instead of de-fusing Entitlement Willie and his wife, a.k.a. "Lets Reform Health Care The Way We Reformed the Tobacco Industry--With Lots of Lawsuits" Hillary, really turns me off. When Good is battling Evil, I loathe politicians who say "screw Good vs. Evil--I'm on my own agenda." He is the G.O.P.'s version of John Glenn: military hero, decent Senator, but never presidential material. Of course, the McCain groundswell the (liberal) media is drumming up will only get louder...the media knows Gore could compete with McCain. Bush scares the heck out of the media (who would LOVE to see 8 more years of Entitlement Willie) and they feel McCain is their only hope of seeing a Democrat prez in 2000.