Bush campaign strategist says 'election will be tough'

The Dallas Morning News ^ | July 26, 2003 | By DAVID JACKSON / The Dallas Morning News

[MeekOneGOP]

Bush/Cheney '04 Official Website Opens

Here is the Website

[MeekOneGOP]

I see that The Dallas Morning News is keeping their top Bush-basher busy (David Jackson).

[MeekOneGOP]

Democrats are seeking to dent that popularity by questioning whether Mr. Bush exaggerated intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. They are challenging the administration's credibility on a variety of fronts, such as the higher-than-projected budget deficits and costs of occupying Iraq.

"When George W. Bush ran for president three years ago, he promised us an era of responsibility in Washington," said former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a presidential candidate. "Instead, we've got an era of irresponsibility unparalleled in our history."

Mr. Mehlman said many of the Democratic critics supported military action against Mr. Hussein, calling their criticism a reversal designed "for short-term political gain among Democrat primary voters."

"If they're willing to sacrifice principle on this, just imagine what they'll say and do to try to get elected," Mr. Mehlman said.

Yep ! The 'RATS are incensed that Bush is killing children in Iraq !!!:

Saddam sons killed in loo [bathroom]

$30 Million worth of trash

Uday Hussein, left, and Qusay Hussein

PMSNBC link to a Video of the pics. Leave it PMSNBC to hunt down some Iraqis that don't believe it's Uday and Qusay, thus discrediting our forces and the Bush administration. Typical. (Note: They have actually taken THAT video off now! Other videos linked now).

[MeekOneGOP]

The 'RATS are incensed that Bush is killing children in Iraq !!!

Even little tommy da$$hole is . . .

Saddened, deeply saddened . . .

[Diogenesis]

"This just in. There is only ONE (1) reason that this may be tough.
This week, a serial murderer and terrorist found new safe harbor.

Those who do not learn from the PAST, will repeat it.

[Puppage]

Of course it'll be tough.....how do you defend yourself againts LYING, CHEATING, THIEVING, RATS?

[Types_with_Fist]

The election WILL be tough. Tougher than anyone here anticipates. The leftists lie, the leftists cheap. The leftists are wrong about what they say and how they say it. Unfortunately, none of that will matter. All that will matter, in the end, is whether or not their tactics work.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yep ! Not to mention the fact that the GOP not only has to defeat the 'RAT candidates, they also have to overcome the willing support from the Leftist enabling media too !!

[MEG33]

Beware of complacency .I thought Clinton could not win.

[anniegetyourgun]

And an ignorant electorate.

[firewalk]

bttt

[LS]

Look, Mehlman can be 100% correct, and Bush still have a blowout. If Bush wins 1 million more votes nationally (which means the Dem loses 1 million more votes), think of the incredible swing of states such as NM (335 total votes difference), Iowa (about 5,000), Wisconsin (about 11,000), Oregon, and even Pennsylvania and Michigan. A shift of PA and any two of the other states pretty much puts Bush over 310 electoral votes; and a shift of all of them is blowout territory.

All of this with a slow-growing economy, battle deaths in Iraq, harping on WMDs, and no Saddam. What is the economy starts to add jobs by January, battle deaths start to slow, several reports on WMDs appear---which will never convince Dems, but will likely justify the war easily in the mind of the public---and Saddam is caught? You go from blowout to landslide.

On the other hand, to be fair, if none of these things change, indeed Bush is in for a tough election, because the whining right will stay home due to CFR and health care (which still has not become a reality), the middle will have forgotten 9/11, and the left will have increased in its viciousness and desperation.

So I could see it go either way, from a total landslide to a narrow defeat.

[LS]

Despite what you or I think, this plays very well with the public. The large share of the voting population does not see a link between Abbas and Yassir; they only see "action" on "peace in the Middle East" and, in general, believe Bush is advancing that cause.

If you, or any Dem, thinks that the "middle east peace process" will be Bush's undoing, you haven't been reading the polls. Indeed, Bush has effectively neutered the Dems on this because the ONLY thing they can do would be to call for TOUGHER actions against Abbas and Arafat---which, of course, they won't do. So that issue is null and void.

[Cobra64]

Beware of complacency .I thought Clinton could not win.

And Jimmah Carter!

[MEG33]

Must you remind me!

[ex-Texan]

It ought to be Bush and Condi Rice. Best chance to win in my humble opinion.

[verity]

And an ignorant electorate.

This is my greatest concern.

[deport]

"Our numbers look good today," Mr. Mehlman said. "But as we've predicted for some time, those numbers will come down. We must prepare for an election every bit as close and every bit as hard fought as the 2000 election."

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If'n President Bush is re-elected I don't think it will close. History shows that Presidents that are re-elected usually win by fairly large EC numbers, not a squeaker like in 2000.

[jpsb]

The election will be tough. The GOP is now on record for supporting open borders, importing cheap goods from low labor countries, and out sourcing IT and service jobs. Why should any middle class people vote GOP?

Now poor people that are getting a rebate on taxes they never payed might.
Any maybe the homosexuals that want to be married might.
And the GOP can probably count on a few illegal alien votes
Plus the votes of the CEO's of fortune 500.

But I don't think that will carry the day. Keep sending our jobs over seas GOP and you to will be unemployed. Count on it.