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To: Neocon who wrote (150844)	11/3/2004 11:48:43 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

He is a lame duck and beholding to no one. As a lame duck he can make every decision fbo the american people as he sees it. His inclination the first time around was to be a compassionate conservative dealing with dems as he did in Texas. Maybe the dems deserve some blame in not allowing that or maybe it was just the 2000 election bitterness or maybe it was part Rovian strategy for this election. Whatever it is, i see bush as a christian man but not evangelical and one who harbor no emnity to people who see social issues differently. As far as the econonmy he did what he had to do to save us from depression and part of it was to allow wild spending and war spending without high taxes and with deficits. That cant continue either so look for some tax modification and some deep spending cuts and perhaps some vetoes along the way. mike

To: Neocon who wrote (150844)	11/3/2004 1:02:44 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Respond to of 281500

He must deliver for his base, or he will breed trouble. If you mean by this... The Evangelical Right: he will deliver for them and in spades. Look to Supreme Court vacancies to be filled with those not interested in strict interpretation but with those interested in revision or biased interpretation. Expansion of Faith Based Initiatives will continue. Some next president will need the "base". The ultra hawks: If Rumsfeld is fired, I will be surprised. Even if he is, what happens to the Wolfowitz's of the world matters as much or more. Given their inept handling of foreign policy so far (State department doesn't control foreign policy any more, "defense" does - I'm sure you'd agree), I expect fully more of the same only it will get worse. Prediction: Cheney will rename the Defence department the Offence department. The only possible brake on increasing foreign insanity may be as a result of the overstretched nature of the military and finances. (If I were a terrorist mastermind, I'd be opening a new front somewhere far away from Iraq about now. Indonesia has lots of Muslims, and oil, and US investment, so that seems a reasonable potential target.) Given some realism which surely even the dullards running the White House must have had injected into their plans, I'd say they will turn on all guns blazing forward since there is every chance that the people will have figured out by 2008 that 4 more years was 6 too many. The meek: Those that bought Bush because they feel he is protecting them by promoting foreign policies designed only to isolate the US, won't feel safer. Bush won't have anything else to offer these people - they are a weak base in the end, one election cycle; one round of unplanned tax hikes - just wait, coming in year 2 I bet - will destroy this group. Eventually they will have Buyers (voters) Remorse. Meanwhile, a man who believes salvation for the world can only come out of world wide turmoil and destruction on a massive scale is in the White House, and he has the "football" containing nuclear launch codes at his disposal. I feel much more comfortable today. LOL LOL