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How Bush can lose Posted: January 8, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com There's a kind of smug self-confidence emerging in the Bush White House based largely on incompetence in the Democratic Party, an improving economy and better news on the Iraqi war front. Polls are showing President Bush handily beating Howard Dean or any other potential Democratic nominee in the November election. That may happen. But let me offer another scenario. Whether it's Howard Dean or Daffy Duck who is nominated by the Democrats this summer, Bush's major opponent is going to have a lock on anywhere from...

<p>The absence of Republican primary challengers is allowing President Bush to campaign for centrist swing voters with a freedom that he lacked in 2000, when he ran to the right of rival Sen. John McCain.</p> <p>"We haven't been forced to make a choice between activating our base and appealing to mainstream voters," said Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt.</p>

On December 15, 2003, Michael Peroutka announced his candidacy for the Constitution Party presidential nomination. In an interview on Radio Liberty hosted by Dr. Stan Monteith, Mr. Peroutka identified the need to restore loyalty to the Constitution as a key reason for his campaign for the presidency, "We really do need, Dr. Stan, an American, somebody who understands law and American form of government, to run for president; and I really believe that at this point, there is not such a person in any of the major parties ... because none of them give the slightest fig, I believe, about...

THE REPUBLICANS: President George W. Bush (R-Texas) * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: Albertha Moultrie Brinson (R-New York) * Edie Bukewihge (R-California) * F. Dean Christensen (R-Arizona) * Carten Cordell (R-Alabama) * Thomas S. Fabish (R-California) * Lowell "Jack" Fellure (R-West Virginia) * Hoover Mark Gee (R-California) * Michael Idrogo (R-Texas) * Mildred "Millie" Howard (R-Ohio) * Derrick C. Johnson (R-Oregon) * Louis J. Rapuano Jr. (R-Connecitcut) * Keith Slinker (R-Pennsylvania) * William "Bill" Wyatt (R-California) * NOT RUNNING / OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE: Donnie Kennedy (R-Louisiana) - Withdrew in September 2003 Yehanna Joan M.M. Malone (R-DC) - Withdrew...