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

To: Brian P. who wrote (13949)	3/3/2000 9:48:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Respond to of 769667

Bush is really suprising even me with what a slippery sleazeball he's turning out to be. <<.c The Associated Press NEW YORK (March 3) - John McCain and George W. Bush waded into each other Friday in the battle for ``Super Tuesday' delegates, with Bush accusing McCain of shortchanging breast cancer research and McCain charging his presidential rival was seeking to ``hijack the campaign' with big money. Bush turned to the pillars of Republican power in New York in an effort to snuff McCain's insurgent campaign, but there was controversy even there. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was resisting the McCain-bashing efforts of Gov. George Pataki and other GOP state leaders. Stirring the most controversy was a Bush commercial arguing that McCain voted against breast cancer research. McCain's allies demanded an apology, noting that McCain's sister - Sandy McCain Morgan - has been diagnosed with the disease. McCain said he has repeatedly voted to increase spending on breast cancer research and the vote cited in the Bush ad was one where he opposed putting breast cancer money in a military spending measure. Bush aides rejected the criticism, and Bush himself attended an event meant to underscore his commitment to fighting breast cancer. [Eddie Haskell strikes again--LOL] In addition, McCain's environmental record was under fire in a widely run ad purchased by a private group not heard of before in the campaign. McCain contended the effort was coordinated by the Bush campaign, a charge Bush rejected. ``Here's a guy who gave waivers to 85 polluters, all of whom gave to his campaign,' said McCain. ``Somebody is putting in $2 million to try to hijack the campaign here in New York.' ``It's everything I've been fighting against,' said McCain. ``Two million dollars in the last few days in this campaign can make a difference in a race that is a statistical dead heat.' As he campaigned on Wall Street on Friday, McCain was seeking a balance between responding to assaults and sounding his basic campaign themes. ``You can't be diverted,' he said. ``If I've made mistakes in this campaign it's because I've allowed myself to be diverted.' Despite that, McCain was spending a fair amount of time responding to Bush. Rebutting the environmental accusations, Martha Marks, head of a group called Republicans for Environmental Protection, was at McCain's side praising his record. ``Of the Republican candidates in this primary election, John McCain has by far the best environmental record,' she argued. McCain aides said they'd benefit from a backlash because the ads went over the top. ``The Bush campaign made a colossal mistake with these two ads,' said media strategist Mike Murphy. ``It the great, late mystery smear.' The New York fight matched the enthusiasm of McCain's insurgents, against the muscle of the GOP establishment, but there were chinks in the establishment armor. Pataki and Giuliani have both endorsed Bush, but Pataki has been criticizing McCain repeatedly while Giuliani has refused. ``There are some people, they want to demand that you get involved in negative campaigning and they question your loyalty if you won't do it,' Giuliani said. ``In this particular situation, I'm extremely loyal to Governor Bush. There is no hidden agenda. ... I just happen to have a great deal of personal regard for John McCain.' McCain said voters could sort through the clutter on the last weekend before the primary season's biggest day. ``The people will figure it out,' he said. ``If they don't figure it out we will have run an honorable campaign.' AP-NY-03-03-00 1531EST >> (I'm not at all sure they will figure it out--again he is overestimating the intelligence and informedness of the average American. The median IQ, you will remember, is by definition only 100. Some Republican party official in SC was quoted as saying that "the people of South Carolina should not be trusted to go to the polls without adult supervision". )