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Texas Gov. George W. Bush's speech at Bob Jones University has come to be held as a symbol of intolerance and bigotry that his opponents can wield against him at will. Prior to New Hampshire, Dubya had tried to remain moderate, but his loss forced him to veer to the right in order to shore up his nomination. Rather than lean to the far right, Dubya chose more of an all out sprint. This tendency of the Republican Party to force its candidates to move to the right during the primaries has been its method of choice in recent...
...told the camera. "And if he did know who they are and he still comes up in favor of them, that also disqualifies him." King came back on the phone. "See? I'm not doing any of this." He laughed. "Unless a reporter asks me." Welcome to New York, Dubya...
...nothing else, McCain's New Hampshire victory has cut sharply into Bush's biggest selling point - that he's a winner. Pundits point to the lopsided loss in the Granite State as proof that perma-smirked Dubya doesn't have the broad appeal the party bosses once thought he did. Other self-professed realists maintain that Bush will still coast - the Texas governor has four times as much cash on hand as McCain, not to mention the support of the party establishment in virtually every state. What's more, most states don't allow registered independents, a key factor...
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...