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

To: Neocon who wrote (12464)	2/24/2000 5:36:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Next he'll be highlighting every 15th letter and finding secret messages in there. ! I wonder if he will dig up some of my old posts for me.

To: Neocon who wrote (12464)	2/24/2000 5:45:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 769670

Nice manly response as usual, Neocon. Just to cheer you up, here's W cheerfully whistling in the virtual pages of the other bastion of the nefarious conspiracy. The $70 million man may be getting a little strapped for cash, oddly. Bush Says Campaign On Track washingtonpost.com Burning money faster than planned, second-guessing some key decisions and reeling from its loss in Michigan on Tuesday, George W. Bush's presidential campaign struggled yesterday to maintain the perception that Bush was the front-runner and the candidate best positioned to claim the Republican nomination. Campaigning in California, Bush insisted that his organization is on track and remained upbeat about his prospects. "We ran a good race in Michigan; we turned out a big Republican vote yesterday." Later, he added: "This is a marathon. I always knew that." But campaign aides and other advisers were privately trying to assess their efforts and examine how their candidate managed to lose two of the biggest advantages he once held over McCain: a seemingly untouchable campaign treasury and a sense of inevitability about his candidacy. Bush, who has raised more than $70 million, could now have as little as $10 million left in his campaign chest, according to several Republicans close to the Bush team. Just last week, Bush revealed that he had already spent his campaign fund down to $20 million. But that figure was as of Jan. 31 and didn't include much of the money Bush spent on an advertising blitz and multimillion-dollar ground war effort in South Carolina--or heavy spending in Michigan and Arizona. Increasingly, Bush loyalists have been questioning what the Texan's campaign has to show after spending more money than any primary candidate ever has in such a short time span. Yesterday, those questions centered on the Bush decision to spend $2 million on television ads in McCain's home state of Arizona, where McCain himself spent no money on TV and just $27,000 in late radio ads in the state. "What happened in Arizona shows a total lack of understanding of how to run a national campaign," said one veteran Republican operative. "Two million dollars is a lot of money to be playing a game in your opponent's back yard." McCain, meanwhile, has seen his financial fortunes improve along with his political stock. After spending $7 million this month, his aides said they have about $2 million in the bank. But with federal matching funds, they expect to have at least $9 million available soon. While Bush will still be able to spend more in the decisive March primaries, McCain spokesman Dan Schnur said, "it's going to be nice being outspent by a fathomable amount this time." In an interview yesterday, Bush finance chairman Donald Evans insisted, "we're right on plan for where we thought we would be if we lost New Hampshire."