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...polis to an obscure, alumnus of Yale, who ultimately captured more state primaries. He did not seal the nomination until the final hour of the primary season, and them only by the packing the convention with hundreds of unelected delegates. Then he stunned his party by appointing Bert Lance as his campaign chairman. To top it all off, Mondale vowed to raise taxes...
...only has Mondale been unable to posit a specifically Democratic optimism, but the electorate, given its current mood, seems willing to forgive Reagan's past policy failures. "People forget what transpired during the first two years of his Administration," says Georgia Democratic Chairman Bert Lance. "People went through great economic trauma. But it's like an earache: when it's hurting, that's all you've got on your mind, getting rid of it, but when you get relief you start to think about other things...
...Partly out of shrewd instinct, partly out of puckish perversity, Safire cannot be counted in anyone's corner, but "when my right-wing confreres and pols depart from principle I feel particularly pained." His working motto is "Kick them when they're up." He recently defended Bert Lance when he was down. Safire used to write speeches for Richard Nixon, but the fact that Nixon has been lately taken up by liberals for his advocacy of detente, Safire says, provoked a column calling Nixon "soft on Communism...
...Ferraro knows well, when national figures come under suspicion, the public and press fasten on to the reputed rascals and do not easily let go. There can be a rather voyeuristic zeal about such searches for official wrongdoing, and prosecutory momentum, once begun, is difficult to slow. Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, was forced to leave office, tried and found guilty of nothing. So great is the power of stigma, however, that when Mondale tried to make him his campaign director, Lance was forced to step down within three weeks. In addition to making other serious mistakes, Presidential...
...only glitch in their tour came at the end, when Bert Lance, the Georgia politico who was expected to help the Democratic ticket in the South, announced he was resigning his three-week-old job as general chairman of the campaign. On the eve of the party's convention last month, Mondale had tapped Jimmy Carter's former Budget Director, who had been indicted and then cleared of charges of bank fraud, to head the Democratic National Committee. When a storm of protest blew up over the choice, Lance was shifted to an ill-defined political post...