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...gotten eight years more sophisticated and cynical since Bill Clinton's "The Man From Hope" essentially gave him a lead in the 1992 race. But Dubya managed to hit every amiable, feel-good note he intended to. He told us, "There used to be a slogan in Midland, 'The Sky's the Limit.' It's such an optimistic slogan, really." (Let it never be said the man can't read subtext.) He talked baseball. He showed Laura feeding him cake at their wedding. He took us out for a drive. He hung out in the yard with us. Knowing...
...starts reminiscing. "It seems like just yesterday we were at the hospital," and he gets lost in the phrasing, "uh, uh... havin' birth..." And he and Laura crack up. This is a blooper. Al Gore, you think, would have cut and rolled take two. But what does Dubya care? He and Laura laugh each other goofy. I couldn't even think of the words for havin' a baby! "I like to laugh," he says...
...Delegates: Seeing Dubya as They Want to See Him "The party has a conservative wing and a moderate wing and both sides are comfortable with him. Republicans are hungry enough that there is, to at least some degree, things that we are all willing to overlook." -Kansas delegate Eric Melgren (NYT) "I see him as a moderate with some conservative areas." -Maine delegate Georgia Buxton, self-described moderate (NYT) "I think he's a conservative. More so than his dad." -Maine delegate Elaine Bridge, self-described conservative...
...answer how Bush is different, campaign aides often mention Condoleezza Rice, the African-American woman who worked as a foreign-policy adviser to both Ronald Reagan and Dubya's father and who serves as Dubya's guru on the subject. Says Hughes: "So people look at that and say a young, smart, creative African-American woman, who has worked for two Presidents, believes George Bush ought to be the next President...
...with much glee Thursday night that the press was able to glom onto reports emerging from behind the Republican firewall: that Pennsylvania governor (and Dubya pal) Tom Ridge had spoken with none other than John McCain, who issued an uncharacteristically equivocal response to the enduring question, "Would you run as a vice-presidential candidate...