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Rah-rah for the Republicans

November 07, 2003 ~ 12:49 p.m.

It�s been a good month for the Republicans.

The three stories that have recently made headline news indicating that Bush and the GOP are still firmly in control include:

The Democratic Party is in disarray

The Democrats remain as divided as ever, with only 57 percent of Democrats reporting that they feel their party is headed in the right direction (compared with 75 percent of Republicans who feel the same about their party), with even some Democrats wanting to compromise with Bush more than they already are. Meanwhile, they still await a breakthrough message to appeal to voters, and what�s more, the man to deliver such a message.

Not even the fiery anti-Bush populist Howard Dean is the saving grace of the Democratic Party. After striding ahead by leaps and bounds with his McCainish style guerrilla technique, appealing instantly to the anti-war loonies, Dean is starting to fizzle out as his message is becoming muddled with that of the other Democratic candidates. Nobody wants to hear angry protests against the Iraq War anymore. That was a resounding message a few months ago. Now it is beginning to sound just as old as the Bush administration�s reasons for the war. The voters will have to juggle their feelings about the war along with a host of other topics�only the extreme left is going to use the Iraq war as a single-issue vote.

Bush leads all Democratic candidates from anywhere between 8-18 percentage points, and he commands these leads despite being vulnerable on the topics of the economy and the war. However, his education policies and overall message about the War on Terror are still popular with American voters. Overall, Dubya�s job-approval rating stands at 56 percent.

The American economy in the third quarter skyrocketed 7.2%

This is the best showing since 1984, when�gee, when Ronald Reagan was in office. How about that?! This was the fastest pace at which the economy has grown in two decades, a good sign that the recession is virtually over and unemployment may well go down.

Bank One chief economist Diane Swonk declared, �Pop the champagne corks. It�s very much vindication that the U.S. economy is moving from a lackluster economy to a more rooted recovery.�

Consumer spending reached the biggest high in five years, fueled largely by the tax cut relief signed into law by Bush in May.

Even business spending has grown to its largest margin in two years, to 11.1%, and that may well mean that jobs will go back on offer.

Bush himself says the tax relief is working. �We left more money in the hands of the American people, and the American people are moving this economy forward,� he said.

I knew it all along. But why aren�t the liberals writing about this? I have been to many different sites here on Diaryland by liberal-Left writers and not one has mentioned the boost to the economy that has just occurred. I guess they are just ignoring it, as they always do when their dire predictions don�t pan out.

So, people, let�s hear again about how tax cuts ruin the economy and only benefit the rich. Huh?

Republicans win two gubernatorial elections in the Southern U.S.

The states of Kentucky and Mississippi were the breeding grounds for strategies that could be used in Bush�s re-election campaign. And these strategies were successful. Mississippi�s incumbent Democratic governor Ronnie Musgrove was ousted and Kentucky elected a GOP governor for the first time in thirty-two years.

Thanks largely to negative campaigns launched by the Democrats, Republicans Haley Barbour and Ernie Fletcher will take over their predecessors� seats in their respective State Houses. Ed Gillespie, the Republican National Chairman, said he believed the Democrats made the race a referendum on the Administration�s handling of the economy.

�The Democrats had their referendum and got their answer,� Gillespie said.

With Barbour�s and Fletcher�s victories, combined with Arnold Schwarzenegger�s in California last month, Republicans now control 29 out of 50 governorships. For you statisticians, that�s 58 percent of all America�s State Houses with a member of the GOP at the helm.

The Republicans can ill afford to get cocky. What they need is confidence. With the presidential election only twelve months away, they can ride this confidence straight to another term in the White House if they carry on pretty much as they have been. The economy is recovering and Americans approve of Bush�s leadership qualities. So if it ain�t broke, the Republicans don�t need to fix it.

� M.E.M.

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