-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 17:36:12 -0700 From: Anna M* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IUFO: Another party fugative To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Double-click this line for list subscription options ] -> IUFO Mailing List June 3, 2001 Revenge, Served Hot By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON No matter how effectively you take revenge, you always leave somebody else wanting revenge. And the Bushies do not exact revenge deftly to start with their payback is crude, more Scud missile than Cruise. So it is easy to see why they now find themselves caught in a vendetta vortex. They should have heeded the ancient warning: "It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door." In a gathering that quaked the White House, evoking those medieval tales where a group of knights hole up with some mead in a castle in the mountains and plot to foil the king, John McCain is huddling in his Arizona cabin this weekend with the impending majority leader, Tom Daschle, and Bruce Reed, the Democratic Leadership Council president and former Clinton aide. "The White House probably has NASA satellites programmed to see down there," joked John Weaver, who was the McCain campaign's political director. Coming on the heels of the Jeffords defection, Senator McCain's exhortation to his party and its "self-appointed enforcers of party loyalty" to "grow up," and the Democrats' wooing of Mr. McCain, the Sedona summit set off an explosion of speculation that the media darling would seek his own revenge against the vengeful Bush White House by leaving the G.O.P. and running against W. as an independent in 2004. I called Senator McCain at his cabin to see if he was still a Republican. "This is just a social thing," he insisted, as the Reed family arrived and his spaniel barked in the background. "I assure you, I am not becoming an independent or a Democrat. Period. "I am not interested in making George's President Bush's life miserable, or in harming the Republican Party. I want to fix the Republican Party. I believe in the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt." The same Teddy Roosevelt who left the Republican Party to start the Bull Moose Party and run against William Taft in 1912? "I hope we can become a more inclusive party that tolerates dissent and doesn't threaten punishment or revenge on people who don't agree," the senator said. His allies suggest that a rematch of Bush-McCain is "possible." "John voices that, depending on the environment and the mood and the current events," says one pal. "The day Jeffords switched, I haven't seen John smile that much since he won the New Hampshire primary." Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, agreed: "He hasn't crossed the bridge in his mind, but the logic of events may push him there. I wouldn't be surprised if he did it in a year or two." The Sedona retreat signaled the problems W. will have getting his conservative agenda through in a topsy- turvy Washington where Democrats have formed an alliance with senators his White House has pushed around. Bush the Younger did not have a heap of experience in governing or diplomacy when he became president. He had spent his time in his father's White House, not on issues but as loyalty enforcer. Perhaps that is why he failed to understand that there's a big difference between internal discipline and external, between making sure your own folks are in line and those on Capitol Hill are on board. He reckoned he could humiliate Jim Jeffords in plain view of his whole state without ramifications. He figured he could mug John McCain in South Carolina and dis him in Washington without any penalty. McCain allies claim the Bush White House even refused to hire anyone who had worked on the McCain campaign. "One young man got a red flag from the White House because they found out he had donated $250 to McCain in the primary," said Mr. Weaver. "He was asked if he could explain himself. Is that their definition of a big tent?" Even tough Republican operatives were surprised that the White House had not been "killing McCain with kindness," as one put it. Yesterday a deluged Senator McCain put out a statement: "I have not instructed nor encouraged any of my advisers to begin planning for a presidential run in 2004." That is not likely to soothe White House nerves. W. and his inner circle are learning the hard way that revenge will be avenged. 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