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

To: Richard S who wrote (485112)	11/1/2003 10:59:29 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

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To: Richard S who wrote (485112)	11/2/2003 10:23:27 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I care about beating Bush, not Dean. As the polls bear out and as all the political pros admit, either publicly or privately, Dean is the riskiest major candidate except Lieberman to run against Bush. Kerry, Clark and Gephardt are all stronger. In fact a combination of any of those three is fine with me, even if Kerry gets left out, but don't count out Kerry. He is a real fighter, one of the best campaigners and debaters there is. Just this week he tagged Dean with two nice punches, which were not returned. While Bush's war in Iraq has gone badly and most people now question how it was done, most people still support the general idea of taking out Saddam and being strong vs. weak against such potential threats. Kerry has now crystalized his stand to one sentence (finally) "I was for taking out Saddam the right way, with a broad coalition and a post-war plan". That is the right stance. The anti-war stance doesn't win. Neither does the rescinding 100% of Bush's tax cuts. Some of those tax cuts are very popular. Kerry is for the middleclass and marriage penalty cuts and has always been for them. Dean is against them all. Gephardt shares Dean's views which makes him also a slightly weaker candidate. Gephardt also stood with Bush 100% for the war and posed in the Rose Garden with him. Therefore the best bet is Kerry-Clark since Clark doesn't have the overall experience yet to run the country.