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Reagan gaps could doom Bush By Morton Kondracke Columnist 6/17/04 George W. Bush's presidency parallels Ronald Reagan's in so many areas it's uncanny. But in significant ways, they're also different - ways that could be fatal to Bush's prospects for success in office and re-election. As many commentators have noted, Bush has modeled his presidency on Reagan's so much that, politically speaking, he is less his father's son than Reagan's. Their economic philosophies and policies are the same - supply-side/trickle-down economics, huge tax cuts skewed to the upper classes and vague attempts to control spending. The economic results also are...

President Bush got such a negative TV coverage during the month of January - and Democrats got so much favorable attention - that one wonders why Bush's polls aren't worse than they are. Bush's approval ratings are now down to the low 50s and he loses in head-to-head matchups with both the Democratic frontrunner, Sen. John Kerry (Mass.), and his only rival, Sen. John Edwards (N.C.). But, considering where he's at after the pummeling he's taken, Bush should begin to show a comeback when he starts fighting back in earnest and when (as seems likely) the economy picks up. Meantime,...

Naples Daily News   To print this page, select File then Print from your browser URL: http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/pe_columnists/article/0,2071,NPDN_14960_2659628,00.html Morton Kondracke: Bush's 9/11 vs. Kerry's VietnamBy MORTON KONDRACKE, Newspaper Enterprise AssociationFebruary 17, 2004Both Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and President Bush have had a searing life experience. For Kerry, it was the disaster of Vietnam. For Bush, Sept. 11, 2001. It makes all the difference in their foreign policy views. While a valiant, decorated combatant, Kerry entered public life condemning the Vietnam War, and his career-long record is one of opposition to uses of American force and the weapons systems needed to...