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Monday, March 03, 2003
Here's some more frightening thoughts in the news today, this time about Bush's reelection campaign.
First this:
President Bush has postponed his reelection campaign until after a war with Iraq, but White House and Republican Party strategists have begun planning for a contest in which they envision raising as much as $250 million to wage a battle designed to break the political stalemate of the 1990s and make the GOP the country's majority party.
Then this acknowledgement that the terrorism issue will be milked out as long as possible to help Bush:
White House and GOP officials remain concerned about the sluggish economy, which contributed to the defeat of Bush's father in 1992. They differ, however, with strategists for some Democratic presidential candidates who believe that once a possible war with Iraq is over, economic and domestic concerns will dominate the 2004 campaign. Top Bush advisers say that even if Iraq is settled quickly, concerns about international terrorism will compete with anxiety about the economy, much as they did in 2002.
"Iraq is one chapter in the war on terrorism, as Afghanistan was one chapter in a war against terrorism," said a senior Bush adviser.
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