Word: bushed
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CANDIDATE GEORGE W. BUSH...
...cost of prescription drugs. In Chicago his Democratic opponent, former Senator Bill Bradley, told health-care professionals that he was committed to providing a Medicare benefit for drugs. And in New Hampshire, Republican Senator John McCain, who is moving up in the polls against front runner George W. Bush, expressed concern that some drug companies were using sneaky legislative maneuvers to extend their lucrative patents on pharmaceutical drugs--a move that would keep cheaper generic drugs from consumers. For their part, congressional Democrats held a pep rally last week to show they care about the problem. One speaker: senatorial wannabe...
...course, he has time to ponder politics. In the interview, he said his party's chance of holding the House will ride on its presidential nominee, and he thinks either George W. Bush or John McCain is up to it. ("Forbes, frankly, should have run for Governor of New Jersey.") But what either candidate must do is find the right four or five issues and convince voters they are relevant to their lives. Asked to name those four or five, Gingrich, typically, comes up with six. (They're mostly the ones listed on his website.) "There's no [stopping]...better...
...Just as he defined the moral issues of the 1930s and 1940s, he defined the great moral challenge that would shape America's role in the world up to our own time. Totalitarianism was the greatest evil of the 20th century, and Churchill its most able adversary. --George W. Bush, Governor of Texas...
...brought on staff a veteran of Direct Impact, a D.C.-area firm whose clients have included the tobacco industry, managed-care companies and others who want "grass-roots" responses generated on issues. Another addition: Tom Synhorst, a political operative and phone-bank virtuoso who does projects for George W. Bush. And there's evidence of Microsoft's courting business and political players at the smallest levels. In September, senior vice president Craig Mundie spoke to the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Chamber of Commerce, drawing an overflow crowd of about 900. Last month former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour...