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

To: chalu2 who wrote (9877)	12/6/1999 1:12:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

I think he will win the nomination, and that a credible nominee will win the general election. I am not aware of ever saying that either was a sure thing, but I have not seen anything to convince me that McCain will knock Dubya off---- yet.........

To: chalu2 who wrote (9877)	12/6/1999 3:36:00 AM
From: truedog	Respond to of 769670

chalu, that's only in New Hampshire. The national polls are still lopsided toward Bush. TD

To: chalu2 who wrote (9877)	12/7/1999 4:46:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 769670

IS W. INEVITABLE? It looks like George W. Bush has the nomination in the bag. Here's a scenario of how he could become a loser by Christopher Caldwell November 17, 1999 Never has a nonincumbent had such a firm lock on his party's presidential nomination so early. Republican favorite George W. Bush has seemed ill-informed on foreign policy, inarticulate on the economy, and shifty on his youthful libertinism, but he has never for a moment seemed like a loser. He has chased Republicans out of the race one by one. Kasich, Alexander, Quayle, Elizabeth Dole ... each of them threw up his or her hands at the impossibility of competing with Bush in fundraising. [snip] theatlantic.com Excerpt: And yet McCain's advisers see daylight. "The Bush campaign is based on his inevitability," says one. He's right. Bush is the presumptive Republican favorite not because of anything he stands for, but because the party brass feels he can win. These savvy Bush Republicans -- like Clinton Democrats in 1992 -- realize they're trying to win with a discredited party. And just as Clintonites silenced hard-line Democrats on race and crime, Bushies are demanding that traditional Republicans bite their tongues -- on tax cuts, abortion, immigration, the minimum wage -- and let the public forget what the party has recently stood for. Only 61 percent of Bush supporters, according to one poll, can name any specific reason why they back their candidate -- and in many cases, the reason given is that he's the son of a President. [...]