The Lincoln Visit
Democrats tried to prove that the president’s trip to the Lincoln was a waste of taxpayer money. Instead, they ended up proving that it saved money:
“Republicans were always running all these numbers showing how much Clinton and Gore spent for their political gains,” said a DNC staffer. “We’re trying to do it with Bush and Cheney.”Unfortunately, the opposition researchers were out of luck. In fact, Bush is actually saving taxpayers money by spending the night on the USS Abraham Lincoln, where security expenses are much cheaper than they would have been at a land-based hotel. Moreover, Bush’s flight out to the Lincoln on the four-seat S3 Viking aircraft is a flight the Navy usually makes to carriers that are coming in to shore, and Bush did not require use of the Marine helicopter that he usually takes.
“He just got lucky,” said the DNC staffer. “We’ll be able to get him lots of times in the coming months.”
Probably not. Anyone who saw Bush on the deck of the aircraft carrier after landing Thursday afternoon had to realize this was no Mike Dukakis-in-a-tank moment. Almost certainly images from this trip will be replayed time and again during the 2004 campaign, to the benefit of Republicans.
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