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April 07, 2004
Bush | What Bush Has Going For Him

This from Machiavelli himself:


* With gas prices at record heights, Kerry is on the spot because of his advocacy of a higher gas tax. Voters know that the president can't control oil prices, but they sure know he can raise or lower taxes.

* The recent economic-growth and job-creation data is pulling the rug out from under Kerry inch by inch. A few more months like March, and his entire campaign theme will be made moot.

* More and more voters are becoming convinced that Kerry would raise their taxes. His promises to confine tax hikes to the rich are about as credible as an alcoholic's pledge only to drink at night. Once they start raising taxes, voters figure, they can't stop themselves.

* It is evident that Kerry has no effective answer for Bush's charge that he would undermine homeland security. With the national focus shifting more and more to terrorism and away from the fading recession, Bush's lead becomes ever more daunting.

* Kerry's own work habits are subject to question. His ski vacation and elective shoulder surgery put him on the sidelines when he most needed to defend himself against Bush's attacks.

Read the full article. Morris goes on to claim essentially that chaos in Iraq is OK (in terms of winning an election), a mounting US body count is not.



Posted by Mike Van Winkle at April 7, 2004 11:19 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Phhft. Dick Morris is a moral moron. Worst kind of cynic. As if “pulling back to bases” would do anything other than set up a “who lost Iraq?” fragfest that’d make 1949 look like a love-in.

Posted by: Mitch H. at April 7, 2004 11:37 AM

I’m not very smart. Please make yourself clear. Thank You.

Posted by: Eugene at April 7, 2004 11:42 AM

From the Post oped:
“April 6, 2004 — THE latest daily tracking polls by Scott Rasmussen show that President Bush has moved up six points in the past week to take a three-point lead over Sen. John Kerry.”

From Rasmussen Reports:
“Wednesday April 07, 2004—Senator John F. Kerry leads President George W. Bush 48% to 42% in the latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll.”

Eh?

Also from Rasmussen:

Apr 6 Bush 44 Kerry 47
Apr 5 Bush 45 Kerry 47
Apr 4 Bush 46 Kerry 46
Apr 3 Bush 46 Kerry 45
Apr 2 Bush 47 Kerry 44
Apr 1 Bush 45 Kerry 44

The title of the Post oped is ‘Kerry’s crash continues’. Is he still snowboarding?

Posted by: bananas at April 7, 2004 01:14 PM

bananas, Kerry rode his wave of free media coverage as far as it would go. To the bottom of the hill so to speak. Now Bush can counter the free press with advertising. That means the Bush 100 million dollar advantage is more of an equalizer. So we are left with a classic liberal vs conservative election. Unless the economy tanks, it won’t be an issue. I think Morris’s opinion on casualties is just that. He is basing it on the vietnam model which is no longer valid. That model crashed with the WTC towers. If the VC had slaughtered 3,000 innocent Americans, we never would have pulled out of vietnam and the VC would have lost. Johnson was a coward and a quitter. Bush is not. So I think Morris will agree next year about this time that he misjudged the American public’s tolorance for casualties. Wit until the Bush summer offensive starts. After the Donk convention, there will be a massive ad camopaign design to show just what a loser Kerry is. Not a very difficult arguement to make.

Posted by: ableiter at April 7, 2004 02:30 PM

A few more months of positive job growth and Bush will have a few months of positive job growth!

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