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

To: Ish who wrote (155333)	6/23/2001 8:40:23 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

McCain and his types now hold the balance of power in the government. They will have difficult decisions to make. Stay with the party but pressure it to the middle and run against Bush in 2004 or just bolt? Up in the Northeast Republicans are toast in any elections coming up unless they distance themselves from Bush. Also in California and other moderate-liberal states. Those regions could easily tip the congressional balance. I don't know if Chaffee, McCain and the woman from Maine will leave the GOP but they will threaten to unless given enormous respect and clout. In any close vote they are the difference. So Bush will have to change his tune and try and kiss their butts. But it will be very strained. Remember McCain dislikes Bush even though he gave him the election by helping him in New Hampshire. McCain is very ticked off about being squeezed out of the process and being denied campaign finance reform which is something almost all Americans want and should have. Bush and Tom DeLay control tremendous amounts of corporate soft money. But it will be taken away from them by McCain and the Dems if they can. McCain will likely be the Republican nominee in 2004 if he stays with the party. If not it will be damn close and Bush will lose any battleground state he won in the last election. He may even do as badly as Dole did. Or like his father did only worse unless he's lucky enough to run against someone short and ethnic like Dukakis. But the Dems have some formidable candidates waiting in the wings. And they will be pissed off and preparing for total revenge. My guess is they'll get it and by 2004 all branches of governmetn will be lost by the GOP. Independents will also grow and their voices will be heard. Latest reports show Bush really did lose Florida if intention of voters is counted. And that is also why Jeb Bush may be finished in a close race in 2002. Jeb is already distancing himself from his brother but the stink lingers on him. To make matters worse, now we have a bad economy unlikely to recover much in 2002, a phony energy crisis with great scandals to come, an embarrassing President internationally who can't even make a decent speech and a string of deviously broken promises. Jeb may have given up his own political future for his brother, and those two never did get along very well to begin with. Notice Kathleen Harris already stepped down. They're all running now. Running and hiding. The truth is they did what they could to steal the election. But they sold their futures off in the process. Gore may be finished too but he did win the popular vote and he probably should have gotten the win if not for the stoppage of counting and one GOP appointed Supreme Court justice who had two kids working in the Bush campaign. The fair thing would have been to do Florida all over again with Ford and Carter overseeing it but it was never allowed to happen. It was a disgrace to democracy and still lingers like a bad hangover in our American spirits. The pundits were right. Whoever won that election might turn out to be the real loser in the long run. Because the only way to win was to pull strings. Bush had one more string to pull than Gore. That was it. The public wants a re-match and the outcome now is obvious.