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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (12198)	2/23/2000 8:49:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Ah, back from an honest days work, unlike, by all evidence, many of you great lion-hearted champions of free market competition here. VBG! <<The McCain campaign requested an invitation for McCain to speak at Bob Jones. They were refused.>> Yes, Bob Jones wasn't too keen on inviting a man who would speak out and to his face call his 16th century primitive racialism and "The-Pope-is-the-Antichrist" savagery "idiotic" and "stupid" and "incredibly hurtful", as McCain, alone among the Republicans (except for Alan Keyes, God bless his intelligent, decent, brave, conservative soul) had the guts and the character to go on South Carolina and national television and say. Some of you ought to be thoroughly ashamed of yourself for making excuses for Bush's WIMPY, shameless "see no evil, hear no evil" performance at that place. "Don't judge my heart!" We're not, George, (you idiot) we're judging your BEHAVIOR and JUDGEMENT, you know, those Presidential things. Many of you here and in the media point out that John McCain is a gift to Al Gore come November--the way Big John is bloodying Bush and showing by comparison how wanting Bush is and driving him to demean himself with the extreme right. You are absolutely 100% correct IF you persist with your fellow Republican Knotheads in insisting on Bush instead of getting behind and supporting Al Gore's WORST NIGHTMARE. YOUR CHOICE: go down in flames in November, or join John McCain under the Big Tent. YOU can make John McCain the spoiler (by obstinately sticking with the loser) or make McCain the savior, by coming to your senses. Wake up and smell the coffee. It's morning in America! Now where did I hear that before? VBG! << McCain grabs the Big Mo -- now it's a fight February 23, 2000 Web posted at: 11:02 AM EST (1602 GMT) (TIME.com) -- And the firewall came tumbling down. George W. Bush's early endorsement by John Engler, the Michigan governor who's hugely popular among the state's Republicans, was hailed as a backstop against any insurgent anti-Bush campaign. But as the Texas governor has learned the hard way, Republican support isn't everything in an open primary. John McCain won Michigan by turning out an unprecedented number of voters, with a majority of them being independents and Democrats. And, as it turns out, Engler's endorsement may have hurt Bush by helping mobilize Democrats who oppose the Michigan governor. "Shame on me for not being smart enough to figure that out," Engler told CNN. TIME correspondent Jay Carney, who was with Bush's campaign entourage just before it departed for California at about 5 p.m., said the group was shocked that McCain mobilized so many voters. "Bush's people were very confident in the last couple of days that they'd get a bounce from his win last week in South Carolina and would take Michigan decisively," said Carney. "They've already worked out this bogus line that Democrats are voting tactically -- they're loading the primaries for McCain because they've got a better chance of beating him in November." (In fact, polls show McCain beating probable Democratic candidate Al Gore by 24 percent as opposed to Bush's 5 percent.) Momentum in this race has been as hard to follow as a bouncing rubber ball. After McCain's decisive win in New Hampshire, he was able to score defections of major Bush supporters in California and New York, the two largest states, delegate-wise, to vote March 7. Even more impressive was his successful campaign to trump New York's convoluted nomination system and get himself on the ballot in all 31 of the state's voting districts. But then came the Bush landslide in South Carolina Saturday, which gave him nearly five times as many delegates as McCain to that point and left just three days for the Arizona senator to reclaim some momentum before Michigan. Now with his wins on Tuesday in Michigan and his home state of Arizona, McCain's taken the two largest states that have voted so far. And for the first time this year, it appears certain McCain will be in the race through March. With the Bush firewall tumbled, McCain has to be seen as a legitimate threat to be on the ballot come November. Copyright ¸ 2000 Time Inc. >>

To: Zoltan! who wrote (12198)	2/23/2000 8:54:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

McCain won BIG among avowedly conservative Republicans in a very conservative state. It's called Arizona. The difference in Arizona is that the people couldn't be duped by Bushite disinformation specialists because they know the man, he's their Senator. This despite Bush outspending McCain in Arizona by 10 to 1! Can you believe it?! That is so embarrassing! McCain didn't even run TV ads! He said: "We don't have to, the people of Arizona know me". Aren't you just embarrassed that G$$rge B$sh has so far spent *50 MILLION DOLLARS*, vastly more than underdog McCain and to what effect??? The Death Star can't put a stake through McCain's heart with 50 million dollars?!? They got their money on the wrong horse, Bubba! VBG!