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...Massachusetts Governor's resounding finale last week -- victories with more than 60% of the vote in California, New Jersey, Montana and New Mexico -- gave him more than enough delegates to win the nomination in Atlanta. It also prompted three of his vanquished adversaries -- Richard Gephardt, Bruce Babbitt and Paul Simon -- to endorse him with all the rhetorical goo expected on such occasions. But Jackson refused to play along. Instead, he took the role of the iron-whimmed King of Siam...
Already, just the names prompt small chuckles of remembrance: Alexander Haig, Pat Robertson, Pete du Pont, Joseph Biden, Bruce Babbitt, Paul Simon. Has it really been just four months since Iowa anointed Richard Gephardt and Bob Dole as the favorites? Before Primary Season 1988 is carted off to the Smithsonian, it seems fitting to step back and ponder some lessons of the campaign that was. After all, as the Duchess instructed Alice in Wonderland, "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find...
...other group leaders are: Law School Lecturer Deborah Anker; Eileen Babbitt, associate director of the Public Disputes program at the Law School; David Lampe, author of the recently published book, "The Massachusetts Miracle; High Technology and Economic Revitalization"; Boston Globe sportswriter Bob Ryan; Tufts International Relations Lecturer Sherman Teichman; and Brad Minnick, chief of staff to the Minority Leader of the state House of Representatives...
...likelihood, every candidate secretly realizes that the 41st President will somehow have to find additional revenue. But they still disguise their intentions behind pledges to raise taxes "only as a last resort." Next to Babbitt, Paul Simon came closest to the truth when he revealed that this "last resort" effort would probably come during his first year in office...
...Babbitt's "stand-up campaign" dramatized the fact that while none of us want reduced services or higher taxes, neither do we want high deficits bequeathed to our children. Our desire for a gain-no pain cure has left us looking like a whiny child, unwilling to swallow the bitter, restorative fiscal medicine. We have entrusted the economic health of the nation to Dr. Feelgood and have demonstrated a willingness to forgive deception and punish forthrightness...