and so is the NY Post.
March 15, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - First lady Laura Bush and the president's mother, Barbara Bush, are now openly "questioning" the direction of President Bush's campaign team, a stunning new report claims.
With national polls showing the once-invincible Bush in a dead heat against Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the two powerful Bush women are among many White House advisers fearful that the 2004 re-election team isn't up to the task.
Barbara Bush "does not want to see her family go through a '92 thing again," according to two well-connected Bush aides quoted in Time magazine.
The Time report notes a series of missteps and challenges facing the Bush-Cheney re-election team as it heads into the fall campaign season. One recent blunder came last week when Bush was excitedly preparing to appoint Nebraska millionaire Anthony Raimondo as his new national "jobs czar." But Bush had to backtrack when Kerry pointed out that the man laid off 75 U.S. workers in 2002 to build a $3 million factory in China.
This is being discussed on Imus this AM (Stern and Imus both are anti-Kerry), and in the context of something real (i.e., Madrid elections) stuff like this sticks. Y'know, like everyone 'knows' Junior's not so sharp:
Jay Leno: President Bush saw Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ last night. I'm not sure he really understood it. Bush said he liked the movie, but didn't understand why all those people were so mad at Yanni.
Anyway, it buys Kerry a news cycle while he works on his foreign policy.