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BUSH WILL FACE
HILLARY IN 2004
THE DNC AND THE CLINTON FACTOR

By: John Bender

As reported here several weeks ago Gore is history. There will be no presidential nomination for Gore in 2004 or 2008.

The Clintons are firmly in control of the Democrat Party, and Hillary will be the nominee in 2004. Bill Clinton got Terry McAuliffe appointed Chairman of the Democrat National Committee. This means Clinton will have major input into who gets how much help from the DNC in the elections of 2002 and 2004.

McAuliffe is a Clintonista who financed Hillary’s house in New York and who raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the Clintons over the last eight years. He was Clinton’s choice not Gore’s choice and he is close to both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton.

McAuliffe’s appointment comes as the Clinton loyalists are starting to talk about Gore being a poor candidate who should have won the election in a landslide. Clinton friendly pundits and media hacks are saying, sure Gore really won but he should have won so big that Bush couldn’t “steal” the election.

They are pointing to the great economy, a nation at peace, low unemployment, and saying that a better candidate would have walked away with a landslide win. The idea is to destroy Bush and Gore at the same time.

Democrat elected officials are joining the effort, and more will come on board shortly. McAuliffe will see to it. He holds the purse strings and will use them to help Hillary Clinton against all challengers.

Another asset Hillary Clinton has that is not being mentioned is Alan Greenspan. Greenspan engineered Bill Clinton’s election in 1992 by keeping interest rates high until after the election, so Clinton could blame Bush the Elder for the poor economy.

He is doing the same thing to this Bush. Greenspan’s refusal to cut interest rates this week is a shot at Bush and a reminder of what he did to W’s father. Greenspan is creating a new “Bush” recession and will keep the economy sluggish for the next four years to help Hillary Clinton.

Greenspan and his wife, Andrea Mitchell, are Clintonistas. Andrea is a friend of Hillary and a supporter of Bill. Allen is a high tax elitist who kept the economy humming at a 4% growth rate for Clinton, while preaching that anything above 2 or 3% is inflationary.

Greenspan will cost Bush the Senate in 2002 and try to knock him out of office in 2004. Watch for a rate hike in February or March, which will be too little too late to avoid a recession that Democrats will call a Bush recession. He will keep interest rates high to keep the economy sluggish and probably raise rates again in 2003 to cause a slow down prior to the election.

All of this means Bush has a real challenge on his hands here. If he is no better at handling Greenspan than his father was he will be a one-term president just like his father was. Hillary Clinton will beat him like a drum.

Bush the Elder tried to be all things to all people and failed. Instead of building on Reagan’s foundation, and governing from the Right, he moved to the “middle” and satisfied no one. He was vulnerable because he sacrificed principle to try to gain favor with the mythical moderate center.

W needs to look at both his father and at Reagan and then follow Reagan’s lead and govern from the Right. The citizens of this country respect people who stand for principles and who are willing to fight for those principles.

Both Reagan and Clinton were successful because they fought for their ideas. The ideas were absolute opposites yet the nation gave both men two terms in office. Moderates are dumped after one term. Ford, Carter, and Bush all tried to govern from the center and were failed presidents.

What people call the moderate center is in truth the totally uninformed. The 30% on the Left are never going to move to the center. The 30% who are conservative are never going to move to the center. The 40% who do not even pay attention to politics until thirty or forty days before the election will swing either way. This forty percent is just looking for leadership and strength.

Reagan fought for tax cuts. Clinton fought for tax increases. Bush the Elder let the democrats push him into tax increases and looked weak.

Reagan fought to cut government. Clinton fought to expand government. Ford, Carter and Bush did not know if they wanted to cut or increase government.

George W. Bush is going to face a Democrat party controlled by two of the most corrupt politicians ever to gain power in this country. He will face an economy that is sluggish compared to what people are used to. He will also face a Congress that is loaded with national socialists.

The sooner Mr. Bush realizes that he isn’t in Texas anymore, and that he has to fight the national socialists, the better his chances will be to have a successful presidency. If he follows his father’s lead he will give us President Hillary Clinton.

With any luck Mr. Bush has learned from his father’s failure and will govern from the Right. It is the only way he has a chance of defeating Hillary Clinton in 2004.

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John Bender is a columnist and staff writer for Ether Zone. He is also a political commentator who regularly appears on radio and television. He is a sought after speaker, addressing groups and organizations about politics and current events. He may be reached at columnist@dcemail.com

Published in the December 28, 2000 issue of  Ether Zone.
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