He's mending fences. That's the impression that he's looking to create.

He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors.

[Recent Iowa polls show that Gore leads Bradley by a decisive 20-point margin. But in the last days of the Iowa campaign, the Gore camp is taking nothing for granted.] We're strong, ... But we're trying to keep pace.

Bush going up with negative ads this early in the season only proves that desperate times call for desperate measures. With negative job growth, a negative trade balance and a budget firmly in the negative, it seems only fitting for the Bush team to employ a negative campaign strategy.

Given that Nader is running on the Pat Buchanan Reform Party ticket and is openly accepting both financial and organizational help from Republicans and their allies, the answer is no.

What we can't make up in resources we make up in people power.