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...Democrats think there is evidence the group was illegally enmeshed with George W. Bush's campaign. They note that G.O.P. media consultant Don Sipple made the Packwood ad. Sipple has worked for Wilson and Bush and, frequently, with top Bush strategist Karl Rove. Senator John McCain had a similar experience with a different group just before Super Tuesday last March. He says he's "positive" the Bush camp was in league with the group that attacked...
...like former Congressman Vin Weber, former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein and even Hagel are negotiating out of school. The palace guard believes these outside advisers are boxing McCain into a deal that values party unity over McCain's cause. Duberstein spoke several times last week with Karl Rove, Bush's chief political adviser. But before leaving the country, McCain advised the self-appointed intermediaries not to make any deals in his absence, and put his loyal political director, John Weaver, in charge of the talks...
...destroy politics--black arts he apologized for in 1991 as he was dying of a brain tumor. Bush's South Carolina team, led by former Governor Carroll Campbell and his onetime chief of staff Warren Tompkins, are masters of Atwater-style politics. Bush and his chief strategist, Karl Rove, were both close to Atwater over the years. Atwater's spirit was hovering over the meeting when Bush's advisers decided it was time to "drive up McCain's negatives." Though Bush had always prided himself on being a positive candidate--even in 1994 when Governor Ann Richards of Texas...
...that he made it clear on the cover sheets that he was not speaking on behalf of the campaign, but as a longtime congressional strategist put it, "When people get a memo from Haley, they assume it's what Austin wants." Other sources say that Bush chief strategist Karl Rove and others from the campaign have also been on the phone to House and Senate leaders jawboning against a congressional strategy of more modest tax cuts that looks similar to the proposal being offered by Bush's chief rival for the nomination, Senator John McCain...
...been bracing for this anyway. For several weeks top Republicans, including Michigan's John Engler, had been quietly complaining that the Bush campaign has been too secretive, too insular, too resistant to taking outside advice. Bush himself had expressed impatience with the way the Iron Triangle of Hughes, Rove and campaign manager Joe Allbaugh had limited access of ideas and people but never took any step to open things up. "This is a colossal f___up," said a Bush adviser. Said another: "By any measure, the campaign failed." "It's gone from 1 in 10 to 2 in 10," said...