From
Big Picnic,
What if Bush Ran His Campaign Like He Does our Country:
- He'd start by giving about 75 million back to his richest donors.
- The biggest threat to his campaign would be from Kerry's TV ads. In response, he'd spend millions on a pre-emptive internet defense program. It wouldn't work anyway.
- Instead of buying ads, he would construct elaborate campaign-funded incentives for oil companies. Somehow, this would be expected to stimulate trickle down votes for Bush.
- At the height of his campaign against Kerry, he'd start a billion dollar campaign against Dukakis, his father's old nemesis. He'd call the Dukakis campaign "central to the war on Kerry".
- If anyone outside his campaign questioned the wisdom of attacking Dukakis, he'd accuse them of being weak on democrats. If his own staffers questioned the Dukakis campaign, he'd ignore and discredit them.
- Despite record good will from conservative allies, he'd make a point of alienating almost all of them. Rumsfeld would mockingly call them "old Republicans".
- Regardless of who provided the best value, his entire campaign staff would be outsourced to companies Cheney used to work for. They would rip them off.
- Now out of money, Bush would insist on returning still more donations anyway.
- The GOP would enter the campaign with surpluses of cash, and would end it in record debt. This would be blamed on a fundraising recession started by Bob Dole
They'd lose, but even they won they wouldn't have any plan for occupying the White House.