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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (188587)	10/3/2001 11:19:30 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Even the followers are getting very nervous....and saying NO nytimes.com CC

To: Zoltan! who wrote (188587)	10/3/2001 11:34:54 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Swifty makes Joe Kennedy sound like Churchill. She's the affirmative action governor. The terrorists must have known Logan security was under her "watch".

To: Zoltan! who wrote (188587)	10/3/2001 11:37:12 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush has been given many policy strategies by conservatives since his new post-September 11 surge in popularity. Some of the advice is worthwhile, some not. But the ability of his political team to sort it out and improve upon it was well-established long before Sept. 11. Politics will continue, war or not. It always does. I think his best route, and the one he will probably take, will, as a side effect, also do wonders for the Democrat Party's future. He has, over the next three years, been given the huge opportunity of leading most of the public into finally making the distinction between the LEFT, and the more traditionalist liberalism of Truman, Kennedy, Humphrey, etc. The Dems have been held hostage by the American left since the height of the "peace" movement in 1970, when they sold out their party and country for big electoral gains in that off-year election. The party, that George Will described as the longest continually-existing political party in the history of democratic government, DESPERATELY needs to free itself from the various whacko fringes, including the enviro-whackos, the anti-globalizationists, and many others. These fanatics are terrorist organizations-in-waiting, and September 11-as time passes and its longer run implications become more transparent-is illuminating that reality to the previously "undecided" voters whose random whims have been deciding elections. So just as the administration is targeting the up-to-60 nations that "harbor" terrorists, and will make it America's permanent foreign policy goal to reform that aspect of their activities, the Republicans need to emphasize that they are running against the radical left, while still respecting the potential "loyal opposition" that the Dem party was before 1970. The political potential of that idea will, IMO, prove HUGE in 2002 and 2004, if properly executed. The side effect, which may not be all bad, will be to rekindle the survival instincts of the Dems, which will manifest itself in their rejection of the disease of radical politics, which has done far more damage to our nation over decades, than the September 11 terrorists could ever have dreamed of...