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Meese does not rage when he hears this talk. He is watching the numbers produced by Republican Pollster Richard Wirthlin. So far the Meese issue is only a tiny blip, far below public concern about drugs and jobs. He was rumbling down Pennsylvania Avenue in his limousine last week when an aide showed him a piece of wire copy, quoting Connecticut's Republican Senator Lowell Weicker, who was traveling with Reagan on Air Force One. While saying he would wait for the McKay report before suggesting Meese should resign, Weicker snorted, "I've been battling the son of a bitch...
...thought he was more than a blip on a screen until Michigan," said Boston political consultant Michael Goldman of Jackson. "Now Democrats are getting seriously worried." Victory today would mean that Jackson may win the Democratic nomination but he would meet certain defeat in the general election, Goldman said...
...part, the drama of the Bush-Rather match (otherwise the merest blip in the history of a presidential campaign) derived from Rather's departure from the ritual expectations: the network news star addressing the Vice President of the U.S. is expected to be earnest and anchormanly but not nerved up for a duel, an affair of honor. People do not expect the anchorman to behave like a samurai...
...just those dismayed but also those cheered by Olliemania are missing the point. True, most polls show for the first time contra supporters drawing even with contra opponents. But Olliemania has about as much usable political content as Jazzercise. The contra poll reveals not a surge but a blip. Ollie's popularity, like that of his President, was not built of "issues." Critic David Denby, in a grumpy review of "Ollie North, the Movie" for the New Republic, theorizes that Ollie's wild popularity is attributable to his perfect -- i.e., all-American but ambiguous -- Hollywood face. Fine, grant the premise...
...Blip. The Reagan side of the picture disappeared. The President's helicopter, Americans were told, would lift off the White House lawn and bear him away, toward a speech in Connecticut that had nothing to do with the Iran- contra hearings. It was a strange effect, a kind of moral vanishing. Reagan at that moment became an absence...