Word: dubya
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Despite a mammoth war chest and an (albeit fading) air of invincibility, George W. Bush still understands the famous Tip O'Neill edict: "All politics is local." In Dubya's case, as local as your PC. On Monday, the Bush camp announced that it will be targeting web sites likely to be used by GOP primary voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, and in the coming weeks will festoon them with banner ads. GOP rival John McCain previously experimented with banners, but not at the same level of marketing sophistication - Bush's people cross-referenced lists of registered Republican...
...plan and proposals to consider raising the retirement age. Then arch-conservative Alan Keyes wrapped his criticism of the Bush tax plan in an out-of-left-field race reference to "Massah Bush." And the picture of an uncaring aristocrat was completed by Senator Orrin Hatch's charge that Dubya's Web site was "not user-friendly." (The Hatch campaign may want to consider rallying the netizenry behind the slogan "No Taxation Without Navigation...
...Orrin Hatch quickly jabbed, Forbes is sufficiently endowed by his family fortune to avoid the trawling for millions among the special interests. Governor Bush's mammoth war chest provided the only hint of combativeness in a field of candidates, most of whom already look like also-rans, but with "Dubya" out of range, they were firing...