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To: Bridge Player who wrote (19323)	12/10/2003 12:29:22 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793868

ho ho ho.. i wouldn't want to keep my money in this stock.

To: Bridge Player who wrote (19323)	12/10/2003 1:09:30 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793868

Bushies keen on Dean as W's ideal foe By THOMAS M. DeFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF Wednesday, December 10th, 2003 WASHINGTON - White House political strategists believe Howard Dean has a hammerlock on the 2004 Democratic nomination - and they're trying hard not to gloat about it. Senior Bush political managers have been ordered to curb their cockiness but many of them privately say President Bush has drawn the opponent of his dreams in Dean - a left-leaning Democrat they contend can be tarred as a latter-day George McGovern. "The best thing Bush has going for him is that Dean is a weak Michael Dukakis," a key Bush official told the Daily News. "Dukakis won 10 states. Unless things turn very bad for Bush, I don't see Dean winning more than five." The source concedes New York and California to Dean, and presumably his home state of Vermont, but does not spell out where else the Democrat could win. A second prominent campaign adviser echoed: "We are extraordinarily happy today." Officially, Bush handlers shudder at such predictions and are furiously trying to lower expectations. "We expect this to be a close, hard-fought election," Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman has said repeatedly. Moreover, not all Republicans agree with the Bush campaign's private bullishness. "I fear Howard Dean in a debate," said a top Bush campaign source, who is confident Bush will be reelected. "Bush didn't win the debates last time so much as Gore lost them, and Dean is a much better debater than Gore." But Team Bush believes that Dean's support for same-sex unions, abortion rights and higher taxes not only energizes the conservative Republican base but turns off independent voters. "Dean drags the Democratic dialogue even further to the left," a senior Bush source said, "and this is not a left-wing country in presidential elections." In addition, "Dean will never pass the leadership threshold test," another Bush adviser argued. "He comes across as a morally superior liberal elitist who isn't ready to be President." The Bush camp's glee presumes that the economy will continue its rebound and the situation in Iraq, which White House aides say is the biggest potential threat to Bush's reelection, will have improved considerably in six months. As early as last August, Bush political aides were silently cheering on Dean's candidacy from the sidelines. "We can't say this publicly," one aide said then, "but we love that Dean's coming on. Never in a million years did we think there was a chance we'd get Dean." New York Daily News - nydailynews.com