Bush's credibility problem By Novak, Chicago Sun Times

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It would appear that Novak has had a minor reality check, at least in print. Too bad he could bring himself to mention only two setbacks in credibility. We should send him suggestions for other areas in which Dim Son lacks credibility. (I searched, but couldn't find that anyone had posted this.)

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak02.html

Bush's credibility problem

February 2, 2004
BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

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All four of those one-term presidents were plagued by primary election opposition in their own party, a burden George W. Bush does not bear. Nevertheless, Bush is reeling from a double blow to his credibility.

Failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a political accident waiting to happen, became the first punch last week when resigned weapons inspector David Kay testified to Congress. The follow-up blow was the White House revelation that the new Medicare plan will cost one-third more than the president predicted (just as conservatives warned).

These setbacks for Bush followed the most ineffective State of the Union address in recent years. He submitted to the bureaucratic methods that turned the speech into a laundry list. In the two weeks since then, the president has not seemed energized on the campaign trail.

Because nobody wants to say the emperor wears no clothes, worried Republican operatives talk not about raising up Bush but bringing down Kerry. Republican National Chairman Ed Gillespie, given the assignment of rolling out Kerry's liberal record, has come under private criticism by his GOP colleagues. They knock Gillespie, not for trying, but for failing to clearly expose Kerry as a compulsive liberal.

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