Article: Your Gut Only Gets You So Far; Bush makes decisions by instinct, then he sticks with them. It's what makes him a good politician and a poor chief executive at the same time.(Cover Story)

Byline: Jonathan Alter

No wonder President Bush lost round one in Miami: he got rusty living in the bubble. The president looked peeved in the debate cutaway shots not just because he's a competitive guy, but because John Kerry was leveling harsh criticism to his face--a new experience for him. Bush claims not to want yes men and women around him but he's had little experience in the past four years with anyone else. Not since last winter--when he handled Tim Russert poorly and botched a press conference by refusing to admit any mistakes--has Bush taken tough questions in public. Instead of responding to those failed outings with more practice, the Bush team took ...

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