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Actually, Pinkerton understands what Bush must do but fails to recongize the chief similarity between the Gipper and Bush the Younger:

They mean what they say, and say what they mean. And if either man said he was going to do something, he did it.

Directness and honesty are held in high esteem by Americans everywhere, of whatever party. Look at Bush's leadership numbers.

Bush will deliver because he says he will. The people know this. They understand that he will do as he says, his word can be trusted, and that he will not lie to them. They might not agree with all of his positions. They might agree with none of them, and plan to vote against him in 2004. But only the most rabid of the Bush haters, the DU crowd, believe that he will lie to them.

This is a commodity whose value Clinton never understood.

Be Seeing You,

Chris