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Panic is not the friend of the Republicans, it's their teddy bear.""

Don't know what that means. I'm afraid a tanking stock market - which means disappearing 401-ks and IRAs - is gonna T-off a lot of voters against the GOP, or disspirit a lot of Republican voters, so they won't even turn up at the polls.

For a Winston Churchill buff, I detect a lot of sentiments that seem more suited to Frank Jack Fletcher that Mr. Churchill. Yes, there is concern about the market, but the key is to first, reassure a lot of the average folks with the 401Ks, and THEN, once they have been reassured, to work on the other parts of the problem.

One does not get an MBA from Harvard by being stupid. The stock market's got its problems, but the economy itself is looking good - particularly the growth rate. The fact is, Bush has to clean up a mess that occured because Bill Clinton was more interested in scoring with interns and raking in campaign money than he was in dealing with serious problems.

The RNC is going to start hitting back, and I think the way Bush does things is going to, for the most part, neutralize this issue. Furthermore, if the Dems keep up the politics of economic destruction, they'll end up paying for it. We just have to get the facts out there, and we have to solve a couple of problems that have been allowed to fester during the Clinton-Gore tenure.