Word: bradleyism
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...said no to aides who wanted to make it more ambitious. Gore insisted on an incremental approach that would strike people as realistic and prove he had learned the lessons of 1994. He ended up with a modest proposal that focused on insuring children. But his advisers were troubled. Bradley had been talking about health care all summer; he was clearly going to promise coverage for all or nearly all Americans. Health care remained a huge problem for millions, and Gore's strategists were worried that the race might turn on the issue, with Bradley's plan outshining Gore...
...STUFFING BRADLEY'S BEST SHOT
Gore's policy team found fertile ground for attack even before Bradley delivered his health-care speech. The Bradley campaign had given the Associated Press a preview, and based on that Gore was able to denounce the plan as one that was too costly, did nothing to protect Medicare for the elderly and--the fatal blow--replaced Medicaid coverage for the poor with an inadequate substitute. The plan, says a Gore adviser, let the Vice President move "from the fantasy Bradley to the real Bradley." It also demonstrated a crucial difference between the camps. Bradley advisers told TIME they...
...Bradley and his inner circle suffered from what others in the campaign call "the Gandhi Syndrome"--a turn-the-other-cheek style that assumed voters would recognize Bradley's innate superiority and be drawn by his refusal to match Gore blow for blow. But as Gore threw punch after punch, with some landing at or below the belt (Bradley would "eliminate" Medicaid, offer "a little $150 voucher" and wipe out federal nursing-home standards), Gandhi got rocked. He lost control of the campaign and never recovered. In conference calls with the candidate, Bradley supporters like Congressmen Jim McDermott of Washington...
...moments are more emblematic of the quixotic campaign of Bill Bradley than his ride aboard a commuter ferry across Puget Sound on the final day of a poignant effort to win a primary somewhere, anywhere. With one hand clutching a cup of coffee, the other jammed into his pocket, he faced straight ahead like any other harried commuter hoping to get to his office without having to make eye contact so early in the morning...