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...along with Bush, and they must win the O.K. of the Vice President. Paul Wolfowitz meets both tests, and the job is a good landing place for him if he leaves Defense, since it does not require Senate confirmation. Also in the running is I. LEWIS (Scooter) LIBBY, Dick Cheney's chief of staff and another Pentagon veteran. The dark-horse candidate is ROBERT BLACKWILL, a hard-nosed dealmaker who has quietly handled Iraqi policy in the past year as a Rice deputy...
...most important thing now is for Democrats not to panic. Despite what your gut is telling you, this is not the end of the world. The republic survived one run of the George & Dick Show. It will survive another. But I recognize that for those of us who really, really wanted to send President Bush into early retirement, it's hard to stop sobbing long enough to think rationally about the next four years...
Elections are not just about votes. They're also about symbols. And for Senate Republicans, minority leader Tom Daschle has long been Moby Dick. Here was a Democrat from a solidly Republican state, South Dakota, who not only couldn't be defeated but also seemed to emerge from each legislative and electoral battle bigger and more powerful. So when John Thune arrives in Washington next year, he will not be just another freshman Senator. He will be a conquering hero--the man who vanquished the G.O.P.'s 18-year obsession...
...part, because of John O'Neill, a Houston lawyer and former swift-boat commander whose feud with Kerry dates back more than 30 years. The first time O'Neill's anger at Kerry surfaced was in 1971, when the fellow naval officers debated the Vietnam War on The Dick Cavett Show, with Kerry speaking out against the war and O'Neill defending it. This time out, O'Neill, 58, and the group he helped organize, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, ran TV ads accusing Kerry of embellishing his war record, receiving undeserved medals and besmirching Vietnam vets. When the charges...
...that Bush has been re-elected, it won't be long before attention turns to the 2008 fight for the Republican nomination. Since Vice President Dick Cheney has said he's not interested in following the tradition of V.P.s running to succeed the boss, there's no clear heir to the G.O.P. nomination. Potential contenders hail from different ideological camps and traditions. They include...