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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (35339)	9/7/2000 9:27:50 AM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Gore in trouble with his own party leaders.....G.O.P. Leaders Fret at Lapses in Bush's Race By RICHARD L. BERKE and FRANK BRUNI ASHINGTON, Sept. 6 — Prominent Republicans around the country, including several who advise Gov. George W. Bush, say they are worried that his candidacy has floundered in recent weeks, allowing Vice President Al Gore to build on his velocity from the Democratic convention in a way that they never expected. While none of these Republicans expressed panic and all said that Mr. Bush could reverse the trend, they acknowledged puzzlement, frustration and even some distress about the strides that Mr. Gore has made, a degree of progress that they said went beyond an inevitable tightening in polls. "There's no doubt about it: There's real worry about the general state of things," said William J. Bennett, the former secretary of education, who has advised Mr. Bush from time to time. "There's nervousness that was not there before." In interviews during the past several days, leading Republicans on Capitol Hill, at state capitals and even at the Bush headquarters in Austin, Tex., raised concerns beyond poll numbers. Many of them expressed unease about the way Mr. Bush has handled himself, saying that in the last two and a half weeks there had been too many instances when he seemed either defensive, bumbling, weary, detached or peevish. And there have been too many missteps, several Republicans said. For starters, some cited Mr. Bush's refusal to go along with the debate schedule proposed by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, saying his reluctance had made him look timid and was diverting attention from issues that he would be better off discussing. Others said Mr. Bush was letting himself get dragged too deep by Mr. Gore into the bogs of a policy debate, where the vice president is at his best. Still others said that Mr. Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as a running mate had produced scant excitement on the campaign trail but significant damage in the news media, manifest in weeks of questions about the financial details of Mr. Cheney's retirement package from Halliburton, the energy services company he served as chief executive.