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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (11137)	2/10/2000 4:47:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

He was very very weak. Too bad he couldn't have called an election right after Gulf War I. Would have made Reagan's landslide look anemic. In that light, his loss to a lying rapist is even more startling. Anderson - anyone remember why he was running? I can't think of even one issue he was flogging. Pure ego run.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (11137)	2/10/2000 5:08:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

There is nothing contradictory in what we have both said. I will say that I interpret the second run a bit differently from you, though. I think that five things happened, besides Bush hurting himself with the tax increase: the Democrats finally figured out that they needed a Southerner who talked like a moderate to win; Bush, through his stunning success in the Gulf War, set people up to expect vigorous action domestically, and to interpret the laissez- faire approach as not caring; Democrats and their economists had been predicting the terrible consequences of Reaganomics, and when the recession hit started yelling "the sky is falling"; Bush was relentless attacked from the Right, in a manner that suggested the recession was his fault, and Buchanan, in the primaries, played the class card, to suggest reinforce the idea that he didn't care; and Perot stayed in the general election to attract traditionally Republican voters, especially among Independents. I could probably come up with a couple more things, like the end of the Cold War reducing the fear of Democratic wussiness, but that will do for the moment......