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...politician to say that aloud will have my everlasting respect. But Gore is promising to keep the budget balanced and pay down the debt, and that's Alan Greenspan's favorite issue, which is good enough for me. Bush's numbers don't add up - this is where John Kasich would have come in handy as a running mate - and if they still don't, he'll lose me in November, along with a lot of other people who see the relative fiscal discipline of the Clinton years as the catalyst behind this durable boom...
...look over their lives. They answered touchy questions probing for criminal records, past drug use and illicit affairs. Some of them, like New York Governor George Pataki, were summoned to private interviews. The process was so laborious that Senator Chuck Hagel needed a full two weeks. When Congressman John Kasich was finished, he couldn't close the flaps on the packing box he had filled...
...fembot. Frank Keating wasn't a dark horse until he told us he was; too safe to be a surprise. Chuck Hagel has got foreign policy cred and independent cred, but it's doubtful Bush wants anybody who's on John McCain's speed-dial. That leaves John Kasich, the House budget guru and rock 'n' roller who has been written off as too young for a ticket short on presidential experience. But try this...
...Gore isn't after Bush on foreign policy - rather, how to spend the surplus and caretake the boom could be the national issue of the rest of the election. In Kasich Bush gets the resident GOP expert with the number-crunching skills to make Bush's tax cuts and spending plans look as responsible as Gore's, if indeed anybody can pull that off. The Ohioan can also help in the Rust Belt, but Bush doesn't even have to spin it that way. He's always said how much he liked Al Gore as loyal-clone veep choice...
...Ridge called McCain, who said he didn't want the job but if Bush called and asked, McCain said he'd do it. Keating hasn't been called in weeks and says he isn't waiting by the phone, but I hear Kasich is saying he's been called...