NYT: Bush and Specter on Same Page (about) Re-election

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Bush and Specter on Same Page When It Comes to Re-election
By ELISABETH BUMILLER

Published: April 20, 2004


PITTSBURGH, April 19 — Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania has never been President Bush's dream Republican.

Mr. Specter, a member of an endangered species of Capitol Hill centrists, did not support Mr. Bush's full tax cut. He voted against removing former President Bill Clinton from office and counts among his supporters such well-known Bush foes as George Soros, the financier, and Harold M. Ickes, Mr. Clinton's onetime deputy chief of staff.

Most pointedly, Mr. Specter supports revising parts of the antiterrorism legislation known as the Patriot Act, which Mr. Bush said on Monday must be left intact.

But never mind. On Monday night in a crowded Pittsburgh convention center, there were Mr. Bush and Mr. Specter side by side, heaping praise on each other as if their political futures depended on it.

In many ways, they do....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/20/politics/campaign/20BUSH.html