[BroncosFan]

I'm trying to focus on the Mars thing (think happy thoughts). Ugh!!! I wonder if Bush would have felt more obliged to play a conservative if no 9/11 in order to ward off a primary challenge. However, if the only credible challenger was McCain, he could've been even worse.

[Modernman]

I wonder if Bush would have felt more obliged to play a conservative if no 9/11 in order to ward off a primary challenge.

I give his domestic policy maybe a C or C+. I like the tax cuts, but am not a fan of much else. He hasn't used the veto at all and he listens too much to the politicos in his administration when it comes to policy (steel tariffs=votes in Ohio, drug bill=old people votes).

This is a foreign policy administration. Anybody who thinks the top issues these days are domestic spending bills is deluding themselves.

WOT is going well. Unemployment is down. Stock market is up. I think all these things add up to a Bush re-election in 2004.