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...same hallucinogenic haze of ambition that has clouded the mind of the Prince of Tennessee. The Bush camp's decision to file a lawsuit to halt the hand recount in a few heavily Democratic Florida counties may be necessary, but the hints of a hard-line strategy emanating from Austin--in which close states like Iowa and Wisconsin would be contested ballot by ballot and precinct by precinct--should give even the most partisan conservative pause. Gore and his surrogates have not behaved honorably thus far, but that is no reason for the Kennebunkport Kid to follow suit...
...precincts that had reported. Knowing that the loss of Florida could discourage Republicans from bothering to vote in Western states, where the polls were still open, Cardenas put in the first of what would be more than 20 calls that night to Florida governor Jeb Bush in Austin, Texas, who was following returns on his laptop...
...chief of staff. Several photo ops were staged with Bush and his Cabinet-in-waiting to show that this certification was just a matter of time, so he'd better get down to business. "There was some internal debate about beginning the transition," says a Republican in touch with Austin. "Does it seem arrogant and overconfident, or does that project assurance...
...needed to be, since the Bushes' own party wanted to go to war. "Austin is lying back," says a party source. "They don't realize this is not about Flordia. It is about the whole damn election." The resentment went back to the last days of the campaign. Bush's team had made a stop in California the week before the election that seemed truly idiotic to friends at the Republican National Committee in Washington. Republicans thought the Texan was just coasting in at the end. On the Sunday nine days before the vote, Bush was at home. Gore...
...already disintegrated and re-formed like little blobs of mercury. Partisans outside the circle were starting to pick up clubs and sticks of their own. "The longer this goes on, the less control the people at the center have," says a Republican Party official. "The great illusion in Austin and Nashville is that they can control the tens of millions of Americans who are interested in this...