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

To: Wren who wrote (14724)	3/9/2000 11:00:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769667

While I personally prefer massive government cost cuts followed by significant tax cuts, it appears that the majority does not share my desire for massive cost cuts Both candidates have shown they know how to demagogue the issue. Bush earlier in chiding the Congress about "balancing the budget on the back of poor people" and McCain today pledging to go back to the Senate and fight tax breaks for "rich people". To make tax cuts a winning issue Bush has to show people specifically what he will be putting into their pockets, and what Gore will be taking away. The more specific the better. Put it in terms of color TV's, VCR, computers, and automobiles.

To: Wren who wrote (14724)	3/10/2000 8:53:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

As a political matter, I do not think many people were focused on McCain's specifics. There is a section of the electorate that is continually in search of a "populist" champion, someone who will "return government to the American people", restrain the "special interests", and so forth. Those themes have become Republican, because Washington is deemed too unaccountable. "K Street" (or "Gucci Gulch") has become the "Wall Street" or "Madison Avenue" of the turn of the century. McCain, although a long time Senator tainted by the Keating Five scandal, managed to play against the "Establishment" aspect of the Bush candidacy, and flog "soft money" reform as an antidote to the "special interests", in order to create a "populist" image. Now that he is gone, Bush will emphasize his outside the Beltway experience, his ability to get things done as a governor, and the need to end "gridlock", and will inherit the mantle of "populist reformer" from McCain, regardless of specifics.........