[rwfromkansas]

This article is poop. Bush is a smart man. There are several must-haves for conservatives: PBA, judges etc. But, I think we learned our lesson after 1994. We have to take things slow or the Dems will have stuff to bludgeon us with and WE WILL LOSE BIG IN 2004 if we go too far, too fast. If we take things slow, explaining to the American people what we are doing, we will gain their trust and the Dems won't be able to scare them into voting Dem.

One thing I will be incredibly disappointed in if we don't make it an issue closer to 2004 is fundamental tax reform. We would have wasted a great opportunity and I might be disillusioned enough to just sit out the 2004 election if it does not become a campaign issue.

[WOSG]

The problem in 1994 to 1996 was not trying to do too much, it was simply that we were facing a man desperate to do anything for another 4 years. It was really a failure by the GOP in Congress to match the Clinton spin machine. The attacks on Newt could not be countered because the media just played along and underwrote many of the CLinton attacks.

Yet, in the end, what did the GOP Congress lose? 6 seats in 1996 for being too bold? They held the House *every term since*!!! And they lost more after timidness (1998,2000) than boldness.


I feel the FAR GREATER error is doing too little than too much. But it is more important to communicate your intentions, support your positions, ie make the case for you policies, fulfill them and to do what you promise. Overpromising is wrong; overdelivering is a virtue.