From: "Catherine Austin Fitts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The lead story on Netscape tonight says that McCain is 3 points behind Bush in South Carolina and that Bush so far has raised $73 MM and has $20MM left. That means that if and when Bush loses in South Carolina this Saturday, he will have spent $53 MM for a losing run. When this much money goes into a loss that exposes the whole network to a swarm, the way that everyone deals with getting hung out with big money backing the loser is to try to shift the blame to the loser. The swarm that was for Bush turns against them as folks try to cut deals to join the winning teams or to protect themselves from attack by the winners. I do not know who is feeding Skolnick and Harpers etc all their information on the Bush networks drug dealing and financial fraud, but if George W. loses on Saturday, the swarm may build into a feeding frenzy. If McCain does not win, but it is a close race, the leaking could get even rougher. That means that either way, it may be an idea time to shine the light back on Mena and the Denver Connection.. ============================================================================ ======================================= McCain Picks Up Endorsement of Former Rival Bauer GREENVILLE, S.C. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain, saying he senses enthusiasm for his campaign growing, received the endorsement on Wednesday of a former rival, conservative activist Gary Bauer. With Texas Gov. George W. Bush trying to strengthen his support among South Carolina Republicans, the McCain campaign hoped Bauer's endorsement would help with Christian conservatives, a leading political force in the state. McCain, the senator from Arizona who is running an insurgent campaign, and Bush, the heavy favorite of the Republican leadership, were running neck-and-neck in the closing days before Saturday's crucial primary. A Reuters poll released on Wednesday showed Bush with a 43 percent to 40 percent lead over McCain a statistical dead heat within the poll's margin of error of four percentage points. The poll of 607 likely voters conducted on Monday and Tuesday by Zogby International showed 13 percent of the voters were still undecided. The third Republican in the race, Alan Keyes, got 4 percent. The primary has become a crucial test in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination but the race is volatile because independents and Democrats both targeted by McCain -- are allowed to vote in the Republican contest on Saturday. Bauer called McCain, a former POW during the Vietnam War, ''the best shot we have to end an era of Bill and Hillary (Clinton) and (Vice President) Al Gore and so with great pride and without any hesitation I am proud to be here to endorse John McCain. ``I know when John was in that POW camp he wasn't sitting around thinking about the wealth of America or the power of America,'' Bauer told a rally at Furman University. ``He was thinking about that moral idea of America.'' The three remaining candidates held their final debate before the primary on Tuesday night with McCain and Bush accusing each other of below-the-belt campaign tactics. Traveling on his ``Straight Talk Express'' bus on Wednesday, McCain said he sensed the same kind of enthusiasm building for him in South Carolina as in the surge which swept him to victory in the New Hampshire primary two weeks ago. ``In New Hampshire in the last 48 hours or so we saw movement,'' McCain said. ``That may be the case here too.'' Asked about his debate appearance, McCain said, ``I thought it was just fine. My goal was to convince people that I am presidential.'' Trying to present a picture of momentum moving his way, the McCain campaign announced that California Secretary of State Bill Jones would switch on Wednesday from the Bush camp to backing the Arizona senator. The campaign said Jones, the only Republican elected to statewide office in California, would be the highest ranking Republican to leave Bush for McCain. Bush traveled to Hilton Head on Wednesday morning for a ''One-on-One'' session and said he was satisfied with his performance in the debate, which he described as ``fairly cordial.'' ``From my perspective, I wanted to say some things and I had a chance to say them,'' Bush said. The Bush campaign acknowledged that the governor, who has raised campaign funds at a record level, is spending at a record clip because he been running everywhere and not picking his spots like McCain. Bush has raised about $73 million and as of Jan. 31 had $20 million on hand, the campaign said. ``I'm the one who is running in every city. I don't get to pick and choose,'' Bush said. ``I'm a national candidate with a national message.'' But the campaign denied Bush was adding fund-raising events to his schedule to make up for dwindling coffers. ``We're spending more money than we would have had we won New Hampshire but we're on a budget that we had developed in advance,'' campaign spokeswoman Karen Hughes said. Asked about the Bauer endorsement of his rival, Bush replied, ``Everybody has got a right to endorse who they want to endorse.'' Bauer, who was an official in the Reagan administration before becoming an activist in anti-abortion and conservative causes, dropped out of the Republican race on Feb. 4, after finishing last in the New Hampshire primary with about 1 percent of the vote. 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