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...Slouching on his bus in a blue satin warmup jacket, he was sharp, combative and a bit relieved to be talking about things he knows inside out. He could tell stories about the leader he believes himself to be: the guy whose magnetism and wit got things done in Austin, and got all those now jittery Republican leaders on board his campaign long before anyone had heard of McCain's Straight Talk Express...
...state senator David Sibley, a Republican ally, told him the bill could die. Bush invited Sibley to the mansion for dinner that night. While they were eating, the phone rang. It was Bullock, calling to deliver something he was famous for--an "ass chewing," as it was known around Austin. Bush got chewed. "I am not sure anyone has ever talked to the Governor like that before," says Sibley. After it was over, Sibley asked Bush to consider a compromise cap--$750,000, far closer to Bullock's number than Bush's. The well-chewed Governor agreed. Sibley called Bullock...
...liked, well-named Governor of Texas. The 18-point New Hampshire crevasse had swallowed up the party that had been sliding along blithely since the failure of the Contract with America, the fall of the House of Gingrich and the nightmare of impeachment. Outside the bubbles of Washington and Austin, the true threat that McCain posed to Bush was abundantly clear. One runs on candor and fumes; the other hides in the motorcade. One takes a punch and looks stronger; the other throws a punch and looks weaker. One seems to delight in crashing the party; the other drapes...
...McCain bounced along the back roads clearly having a blast, breaking rules, insulting voters and reporters and staff members with glee, Bush was doing half the work with twice the effort. Maybe this wasn't exactly what he signed on for, when all those delegations were flying down to Austin and begging him to be the savior of the party. Now he had to do the begging, explain why someone who brags that he never wanted to be President actually deserves...
...season is how remarkably substantial and sophisticated it has been. The candidates have unloosed a blizzard of paper. There are fact sheets on child care, four-step plans to save Medicare, backgrounders on Medicaid reform and transportation subsidies and the tax code's deduction for dependent children. Down in Austin, Texas, Bush has assembled an entire shadow government of policy wonks to translate the gaseous cloud of his compassionate conservatism into the hard data of tax tables and impact studies...