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...mate, has survived three (mild) heart attacks and one coronary bypass surgery. And while the appointment of the older and more experienced Cheney is being touted as adding "gravitas" to Bush's campaign, the presumptive veep candidate's health history adds a different note of seriousness that the Republican ticket may find difficult to dismiss...
...Bush camp has already taken various doctors' assessments and volumes of medical information into account, they must have concluded (incorrectly or not) that Cheney's past heart problems will not be an issue in this election. And they may well be right: It remains unclear whether the Gore ticket will launch an attack on Cheney's physical qualifications for the veep slot (a route that might be considered too tasteless even for American politics...
...wait two weeks at least, let the Cheney introduction play out in the press and watch Philadelphia on cable TV. See who salutes, and measure the bounce that the Bush-Cheney ticket - a dreamy promise of a return to the Bush family's salad days - gets in the polls. Average is 6-10 percent, anything more or less will throw Gore into a paroxysm of calculation...
...shouldn't. Gore is looking through his sights at a ticket that is defiantly not improved, just rounded out a bit. The Bush camp is saying that George W. Bush is enough, and that the Cheney choice just puts a slight emphasis on the Bush part of the ticket. That emphasis may turn some people off; it will inspire others. Some it will bore...
...Bayh would be thrilled, and Bob Graham would be pleased as punch - how much do senators really do anyway? Either gives Gore a shot at a state he'd love to steal, and he could be offering voters the future, not the past. It would be a Gore-owned ticket, a sign he is the top man now, and then Gore could at least know what America really thought...