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...News analyst John Chancellor said Bush should pick Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-Tex.) as his running mate. "They're so close [ideologically] and there's not anything in the constitution against it," he said...
...politicians in both parties, as well as many economists and business executives, the trade bill is a major advance in the drive by the U.S. to reduce the dangerous gap between its imports and exports -- a deficit that hit a record $170 billion last year. Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, called the bill the "most important piece of legislation on competitiveness this country has ever considered" and a "great victory for restoration of U.S. economic leadership...
When Dukakis bid for Texas by choosing Bentsen, it strengthened the electoral rationale for Bush to target California by choosing its Governor. Deukmejian publicly ruled himself out because his selection would hand the statehouse to the Dems, but Bush aides say Deukmejian would accept if asked. Weaknesses: he is dull as Death Valley, and he (like Dukakis) favored unpopular tax increases to cover his state's big deficit...
...Mexico Senator is a respected lawmaker who could counter Bentsen in the Southwest. As a Catholic and Italian American, he could help in the bid for urban ethnics. "We'd love to have a guy with a vowel at the end of his name," says one Bush aide. But he is not a true Reaganaut: as Budget % Committee chairman, he struggled with the Administration, urging tax and budget prudence...
...similarities between Bush and Thornburgh will also help the Republicans play up the ideological differences between Bentsen and Dukakis on the Democratic ticket. Bush has spent much of his time criticizing Dukakis as weak on crime. Thornburgh's record as a hard-nosed crime buster when he was governor of Pennsylvania and as the head of the criminal division of the Justice Department will help to show the Democrats as weak on crime...