Word: ardente
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There's no sign that O'Neill is an ardent supply-sider. Zarb, the NASDAQ chief who also served with O'Neill in the Nixon White House, said, "Paul's not an ideologue by any stretch of the imagination." But even those who know him well can only guess at O'Neill's views on the big, trillion-dollar tax cut Bush campaigned on last year. The prevailing view is that O'Neill will fight loyally for whatever package the President sends to Capitol Hill--but then take the lead in the hunt for a final compromise. "Paul...
...making his announcement about Cochran's support, Republican senators were hearing a briefing from pollster John Zogby, who argued that the best way for them to reach out to voters is to climb aboard the campaign finance reform bandwagon. "Bulls___," howled Senator Mitch McConnell, the McCain bill's most ardent opponent. Other hard-liners are softening. Senator John Warner said he wouldn't mind a bill to turn back the tide of unregulated attack ads that anonymous groups run against candidates. "In 1978 I knew who I was running against," Warner, who's up for reelection in 2002, told...
Bush and Gore have shown that, like their most ardent supporters, they only know how to act as partisans. One acts like a nave little kid who thinks that he can win the election if he just starts moving in to the White House right now--as if the presidency was just a glorified game of "king of the hill." The other appears like the sorest of losers who won't stop crying until he gets his way. Next time, how about we vote for someone whose love for the country exceeds his or her ambition to win the presidency...
...took Reagan's ardent campaigning for his Vice President to push Bush Sr. over the finish line. If Gore gets over his desire to keep the President at a distance, the Happy Warrior is ready to roll. On his way to meet Hillary in Queens, Clinton stopped at the Jackson Hole diner for its renowned Burger Deluxe (peppers, onions and mushrooms with a side of fries), signed a T shirt for a waitress's daughter and posed with everyone from grill man to busboy to fellow patrons. He dropped three quarters in the jukebox, selecting Elvis' Don't Be Cruel...
...when it was time to aim for the White House, it was crucial that he get the tax music exactly right; the whole strategy depended on it, and not just for winning the primaries. If conservatives came to think Bush was an ardent tax cutter, they would be willing to let him roam much closer to the center on just about everything else to win the heart of independents. "He moved the party on immigration and education," says Grover Norquist, godfather of all tax cutters, "but no Republican could have abandoned tax cuts and won the primary, or the general...