[sarasotarepublican]

There is more good stuff in the article. It's worth a read.

[KMC1]

Hard for me to believe that anything coming from CNN could be good...

[CWOJackson]

Very good read.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

This on cnn must be one of those "acts of God"!

[The_Republican]

Yep. His strategery paid off.

[SBOinTX]

CNN knows how to roll with the punches. They're here for profit, and with 51% of the voters going Bush, it would be bad business NOT to at least attempt to distance themselves from the Tait, er, "bias", that afflicts them

[elizabetty]

Senator Kerry wanted to hold the office of President of the United States and President Bush wants to DO THE WORK of being President. It is a big difference.

[AZLiberty]

Yes, it's unusual to hear CNN say good things about President Bush, but to me this article is no better than the previous round blaming the election outcome on Kerry. Of course you need to become a good politician to become Governor and then President, but the real reason he won is that the had a sound set of policies that he and over 50% of the population believed in.

[tomnbeverly]

George W. Bush is a president that emulates Theodore Roosevelt in so many ways. "In this campaign I earned political capital and I intend to spend it"

I love this guy....

[knittnmom]

Amazing how he went from idiot to genius in less than one week! :-)

[js1138]

I would like to point out that if 70,000 people in Ohio had been planning to vote the other way, Rove would have detected this and modified his turnout targets.

The results in Ohio were not close. They were not as good as Florida, but Ohio was a tougher state this year.

Florida has Jeb Bush as a governor, and the state is not mismanaged. Ohio needs to learn about management.

I might add that I lived on the Indiana/Ohio border for ten years -- late 60s, early 70s -- and Ohio seems to be chronically mismanaged.

[af_vet_1981]

Indeed, such talents do not come along very often -- Bill Clinton in 1992, 1996 and again in 1998-99;

I fail to see how losing majorities in the House and Senate, failing to win any landmark legislation, being impeached, and bringing disgrace on the Office of the President signifies distinguishing talent ...

[normy]

Before criticizing the Democrats or Kerry too strongly, it is worth remembering that if out of the 115 million-plus voters nationwide, some 70,000 had switched sides in Ohio last week, we would be trumpeting President Kerry instead of President Bush. We would be discussing the groundbreaking miracle of a Catholic, a senator and a Northeastern liberal winning the presidency against a talented and well-funded wartime commander. But as my father taught me long ago, life is a game of inches, and so once again Bush won a difficult presidential election

Wrong! if that had happened I am sure the media elite and top Democrats would be calling for the abolition of the electoral college. They would wonder if it was right for a man who won by 4,000,000 votes not to be President. They would point out how Gore won by 500,000 votes while Bush won by 8 times that and that proves the Electoral College should be done away with. Of cours Dan Rather, Katie Couric and Chris Mathews would all agree.

[syberghost]

This article demonstrates why the liberals still don't get it, actually. George Bush didn't win because he's a great candidate; he's not, and he doesn't have to be. My full response is here.

[XBob]

1 - we can thank his Mother, not his dad.

[Tribune7]

Not a bad article. One other thing to point out is that Dubya basically has destroyed the Dems in Texas.

Something else for Dan Rather to ponder on cold, windy nights hee hee.

[I'm ALL Right!]

This needs to be archived before CNN figures out what they posted and erases it forever.

[lilmsdangrus]

read later

[najida]

WoW!

They actually said he was smart!

[hosepipe]

Damn... I liked it better when CNN was calling him a moron ALL while stumping for Al Gump... I don't like CNN becomeing normal... I liked them irrelevant..

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[marblehead17]

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