Word: bushed
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...G.O.P. has no ideological box big enough to hold the people Bush has gathered; conservatives of every stripe are pitching in. Lindsey, for example, may be a tax-cutting supply sider, but he spent his time at the Federal Reserve fighting inner-city red lining by major banks. Al Hubbard, a onetime deputy chief of staff to Dan Quayle, pushed for massive deregulation of business during the 1990 recession and now squires kindred spirits to Austin. Fred Steeper, the Republican pollster with the best fingertip feel for independents, is likely to be back for his third George W. campaign, even...
...foreign affairs, Bush has turned to Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice, a tough-minded Russia scholar who worked for his dad. Her group mixes Reagan-era hard liners with Bush veterans Paul Wolfowitz and Robert Zoellick, who is regarded as suspect by conservatives because of his long association with the ever pragmatic James Baker...
...Bush knows he must decide where he stands right now, because he will have no time to think once the campaign is rolling. So he's holding what amounts to a months-long policy seminar and keeping his notes to himself. The result is a Washington guessing game: Whom is he talking to? Whom is he "listening to"? And whom for substance, whom for show? About those things, Bush is right to be discreet. Conservatives growl when they hear he's talking to anyone remotely moderate...
...shell game can't last. If he runs, Bush will have to build bridges between bitterly divided camps. Ugly fights are inevitable, which means that by the time this race is over, father and son may have something else in common: scar tissue...
...PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH Opted for stock in lieu of an $80K honorarium. A year later it's worth $14 million. Touche...