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Maybe the DNC should cut Alex Castellanos a nice fat check. After all, the GOP adman has produced a TV spot that's eliciting torrents of high-level sweat over at RNC headquarters (and, no doubt, torrents of jokes for Jay Leno and David Letterman...
Phillips Brooks House is not the White House: No matter how many cases the Small Claims Advisory Service takes on, it couldn't counteract another 75% cut in the Legal Services budget from the GOP Congress, nor could ExperiMentors train a new generation of scientists from schools with inadequate lab equipment. A personal commitment to the environment won't veto laws drafted by industry lobbyists; only a presidential commitment can do that. Government doesn't need to be the only solution, but it must be part of the solution--or we will quickly find it, as the saying goes...
...Bush's most immediate problem may be the increasingly public grumbling among senior Republicans over the state of the campaign. If long-time GOP strategists keep on alerting the media to their doubts over the governor's strategies, they may hurt the governor's ability to raise all-important campaign funds. After all, many corporate donors view their big-ticket donations as an investment - an investment that only pays dividends if the candidate wins...
...journalists in the eyes of the wider American community, and chances are that Bush's gaffe might actually improve his image. But coming as the election season enters home stretch, it's another potentially troubling signal that the congenial aura his handlers had so successfully constructed for the GOP convention may be showing cracks...
...maybe we shouldn't be surprised. After all, anti-Clinton sentiment (directed at both Hillary and Bill) is alive and well and living in GOP checkbooks, and now that George W. has begun to show signs of weakness, many Republicans may figure Lazio is their last, best chance for revenge against the First Family...