Governors point out that Mr. Bush was in his statehouse at a time of record prosperity.
The governor pointed to Toyota's quintessentially nerdy hybrid.
The new governor pointed out that limit had already been surpassed anyway.
But in a speech last month Jeremy Stein, a Fed governor, pointed to a number of signs of frothy markets.
And one aide to the governor pointed out that Mr. Bloomberg's recent comments have actually been helpful.
As Mervyn King, the bank's governor, pointed out on June 11th, recent GDP growth has been above its long-run average, thanks to a buoyant global economy and a rapid upturn in business investment.
Last year a committee headed by George Deukmejian, a former Republican governor, pointed out that from the 1940s through the 1970s the Californian correctional system was seen as a national leader and "a model of efficiency".
Asked later why Mr. Bush had made such a point of aggressively rebutting Mr. Gore, Ari Fleischer, a spokesman for the governor, pointed to the man who lost so badly to Mr. Gore in the primaries.
Michael McKeon, a spokesman for the governor, pointed to a new poll showing that both Mr. Golisano and Mr. McCall were lagging, saying it was "all the motivation they seem to need to take that low road every day".
The governor pointed out that the last 10 years, in spite of a considerable number of economic shocks ranging from the dotcom bust to the recent spike in energy prices, have seen not only a good economic performance in Britain but a better one than any of its partners in the Group of Seven leading economies.
The governor pointed out that both Cameron and Osborne have failed to grasp the pressures they will face when attempting to cut back on spending, when "hundreds of government officials will make pleas of why their budgets should not be reduced".
