GAMBLING ON GROWTH

摘要

During the 2000 campaign , Democrat Al Gore would plod through de-bates by attaching the term "risky scheme" to practically everything GOP contender George W. Bush ad-vocated. Voters tuned out what many felt was a crude attempt to demonize a politician who earnestly insisted he was "a different kind of Republican." Ever since, average folks and pundits alike have struggled to get a handle on what Bush meant by that. Is he an Establishment swell like his father, imbued with pragmatism and a sense of noblesse obligee? Or is he a feisty Sunbelt Republican, driven by both a conservative ideology and a desire for political combat?