Word: bradley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bradley's condition is common--President Bush dealt with it while in office--and in itself does not spell the end of his quest for the White House. But if last week is an indication, Bradley's campaign isn't as healthy...
...always clear that to wrest the nomination from Gore, Bradley had to do almost everything right and Gore just about everything wrong. The primary rules are rigged against the insurgent because they give the Vice President a head start of some 500 superdelegates (elected officials and party bigwigs loyal to Gore). Bradley has perhaps 20 superdelegates, according to Gore aides. (Bradley advisers wouldn't offer a figure.) And the party has forbidden states to hold winner-take-all primaries, in which a candidate with only a narrow victory margin can rake in most of a state's delegates. That makes...
...Bradley isn't having quite so much fun. "Bill's getting angry," said an adviser. "We're in a bind--Gore wants us to sink down to his level, and we're not going to do that." But they did. Bradley was determined not to lose his aura of rarefied high-mindedness--he's sure it works for him--and so he responded to Gore fitfully, rebutting in his languid way ("We've reached a sad day...when a sitting Vice President distorts a fellow Democrat's record") and having his staff send out faxes and e-mails to correct...
...have to have discipline to do this," Bradley told TIME in an interview before the Gore-itis imbroglio. "You don't have to have discipline to just attack and misrepresent. That's the self-indulgent way politics has been practiced in the recent decade." Gore, he said, "is running '92 and '96 again. It's not going to work... Reasonable people understand what's going on." But to paraphrase Adlai Stevenson, reasonable people won't be enough; Bradley needs a majority...
...Bradley has too much in common with Stevenson, the Illinois Governor and two-time Democratic nominee who styled himself as being above politics (and arguably was) but lost in 1952 and '56. Like Stevenson and the other iconoclasts who descend from him, such as Eugene McCarthy and Paul Tsongas, Bradley has a poetic cast that hides the deepest self-regard and a reluctance to mix it up that threatens to turn him into just another noble failure. "The problem with candidates who are disdainful of the process," says Garry South, chief strategist for California Governor Gray Davis, a Gore...