There's the understanding by so many of these people, starting at the top, that government can be run like a business. They have standing in the business community and this gives them credibility. Lots of money is going to be poured into it and California should do well. Gore was going to appoint. Lobbyists for small business express confidence in Bush's choices too.
Big business loves free trade and all forms of globalization.
It likes handouts of corporate welfare. Small-business America isn't so sure that free trade is in its interest, and it knows that it gets little or none of the corporate welfare going to the big guys. Yet Rumsfeld has been a forceful advocate for missile-defense systems. In fact, Martin Anderson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who was an advisor to Reagan on domestic and economic policy, likens Bush to the ideological Reagan in some respects. Democrats are preparing to take aim on Ashcroft, who as attorney general would be a key player in antitrust policy.