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

To: Neocon who wrote (12893)	2/28/2000 3:00:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I can't believe you're making apologies for the B. Jonesers. Even Pat Robertson calls them "really far out". They are not defensible--they are really on the bizarre fringe. Time to move on to something half-way plausible and defensible. This dog won't hunt.

To: Neocon who wrote (12893)	2/28/2000 3:03:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 769667

Of course, while W tries valiantly to dig himself out of his primary triumph past, life goes on. Things are looking mixed for the biggest prize on March 7. G.O.P. Divide Grows Wider in California nytimes.com I think you'll especially enjoy this part, Mikey. For the reality is that both men are seeking the votes of a California Republican Party that is older and whiter, and more dominated at the grass-roots level by social conservatives than it was in the 1980's, when a pragmatic fiscal conservatism reigned. At the same time, the state as a whole is younger, browner and more politically independent than it was a decade ago, and its striking economic recovery from the severe recession of the early 1990's has helped make Mr. Clinton more popular here than in almost any other state. "The general electorate has gone exactly the other way from the party leadership in terms of positions on immigration, ethnicity, abortion, guns," said Stuart Spencer, the dean of Republican strategists here who was one of Mr. Reagan's closest advisers from Sacramento to the White House. "Till they get their ship righted, and move back to a more centrist, moderate position, they're going to have trouble." They must surely be confused about Stuart Spencer. One of Reagan's closest advisers? He doesn't sound very Republican to me, at least judging from local orthodoxy.