George W. Bush's Strategy??

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Ed Brunner

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It seems to me that the best thing GW can do is to come out swinging and not slow down until after the election.

He has to come out with his positions on issues and tolerate no crap from Algore or the media.

Let the American people decide.

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You have to be there when it's all over. Otherwise you can't say "I told you so."

Better days to be,

Ed
 
I sent a RNC request for $$ support back with a note saying essentially same thing.
We need a man of character willing to speak plain truth and fight as a matter of principle. Not another gutless whimp trying to be everything to everybody, not offending anyone (ie media a-holes!), over-polling, and fearing some kind of backlash. I fear Bush is being over-managed and ill-advised by the same brainstems that coached Dole to a brilliant defeat. If GW isn't capable of sorting this mess out and fighting (and winning) in his own way, then Lord help us all.
 
Excuse me folks, but I think that you are confused. A politician is by nature "Clinton" like. It is just that Clinton is better at being "Clinton" than others. George is a politician. Do not confuse him with Reagan. He is the son of another politician. I must say that I did get a sense of moral center from his father. He had the common sense to keep looking at his watch during the debates, as if to say, "What the hell am I doing here?" Neither Gore, nor Bush can out "Clinton" the master.
 
funny..., I don't feel confused.
A politician doesn't have to be "Clinton-like" even if most of them are. Give us a genuine person and let us decide if we like them or not based on that. I've met a few good folks that are what they are- take 'em or leave 'em. I'd like to think I'm of 'em
 
It may well be that Bush is being "overhandled." I saw a clip on Hardball the other night where Bush was joking with reporters about whether he was an "alpha" male or not. He seemed like a regular guy. If he could get that personality in front of people, it would play to his advantage. The scripted Bush isn't the way to go. If America had in 1996 seen the Bob Dole that we're seeing today I'm sure he would have won.

Dick
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I too think GW Bush, and I'm sure any candidate at a major level, is over handled. I suppose the party tells them what they have to do but we voters are left not knowing who and what the man really is. I saw a satellite feed several months ago with Bush and his brother Jeb in Fla. at a press event. You could tell it was "off the record" stuff and it was real. GW and Jeb were funny, interesting, witty, and normal. They were like people you would want to be around. If everyone could have seen it, I think the majority would say "Yeah, thats the kind of guy I want in the White House".
 
Ed is correct. Modern political wrangling and the immediacy of polls, contrived debates, and other things that separate candidate from voters aside - Bush better put the salad fork and sorbet spoon down and get to the tough meat on the table and start chewing!
His handlers must not fall into the easy assumption that the attention span of the essential core voters is as brief as that of those dems that wait for the regular check in the mail.
 
You can count on this election gettin' really nasty. It'll happen just as soon as one or the other candidate opens a lead larger than the sampling error.

I think the Bush campaign is quite capable of being frank and forthright (read: b*tt-ugly nasty) but now is not the time. Karl Rove (campaign manager) is the master of rope a dope. He did it on Bush's social security proposal before the conventions and just did it on the debates. Get Gore to over extend then smack him.

I am a little concerned at the lack of aggressive actions by Bush, but I also saw what he is capable of in South Carolina primary. Carpet bombing aptly describes what he did to McCain.

Cheer up, there is plenty of time to get worried later.



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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater--1964
 
I would like to see a little more aggression, point out the inconsistencies of gore's position---the flat out lies..I hope there not saving it all for later...gore might do so well as to nullify later....a lot of people like socialism, there are large numbers turned off by the congress media driven image........fubsy.....
 
There is sooo big a target for GW to shoot at. From quotations in Algore's book, to his inability to tell the truth, to his support of the villinous Clinton regime, to his penchent for Government regulation of every imaginable aspect of daily life!
 
This is my take on the republcan party of the last 8 years-
I never would have imagined anyone could do so little damage with so much ammunition.
If GW can't throw some punches, he shouldn't be running. I say, let the campaign get dirty. Muddy, Bloody, whatever.
 
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