The Smoking Gun has his list of his demands for hotels he used during the campaign.
Notable; no celery and no tomato allowed in his room. Which, I'm sure each of you immediately grasped, means no bloody marys.
I figure anyone who runs for President had best be sloshed by 10 AM during the campaign, so he was at a serious disadvantage. Unless he was having mimosas.
kerry lost cause Bush triangulates
Bush Presses Guest Worker Program for Illegals
He does triangulate, although I don't know how effective that is in terms of winning votes. It's a strategy he may have learned by observing his predecessor, who did things like passing welfare reform.
I believe a president has a much better chance of enacting reforms when he plays against his own party ideology. A Republican would have had more trouble passing welfare reform, a Democrat probably wouldn't have gotten the education funding and unemployment benefits Bush has.