[Bush2000]

Bush and his spokesmen should spend every waking moment talking about the "Clinton downturn". This thing started before Bush even got into office. But Americans have a short memory and, by 2004, some of them will be stupid enough to believe the Democrats' lies about the economy.

[Naspino]

Here is how people vote: (1) Loyalists. If Al Gore had murdered a 2 year old in cold blood they'd voted for him anyway. (2) Single-Issue. Environmentalists and Abortionists, and Amoralists. (3) Philisophical. Republicans are against Democracy. (4) Pocket-book. Who's president -- how am I doing? (5) Who looks cooler?

The number 1,2, and 3 lines have been drawn. The number 5 group consists of a small number of twits. The number 4 crowd is HUGE and is what swings the election; however, I don't think most pay any attention to how the economy works and what role the government has.

Altough they will talk up the social security "deficit" and "raids", they will subtly place into every interview the "downturn", the "loss in investments", and the need to "cutback spending". I mean _MY GOD_ we just ran the second largest surplus in the history of the country and the DEMOCRATS are already talking about how they'll have to cut government programs. Its as if the word surplus didn't have a logical meaning.

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Bush and his spokesmen should spend every waking moment talking about the "Clinton downturn". This thing started before Bush even got into office. But Americans have a short memory and, by 2004, some of them will be stupid enough to believe the Democrats' lies about the economy.

Bush isn't as brazen as Clinton. Plus, the media hold his feet to the fire as they never did for Clinton.