Word: bradleyism
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...dream shall never die" speech for the 1980 convention as well as the Senator's eulogy for John F. Kennedy Jr.'s funeral last summer. But Shrum is just as well known for hitting hard. In debate rehearsals, he plays the moderator while former Congressman Tom Downey takes Bradley's role. No one watches the real thing more intensely than Shrum; when Gore nails an answer they've practiced, he leaps from his chair and paces small circles, pounding a fist into his palm...
Every time Bradley tries to take a shot in return, he finds Team Gore there to block it. He accused Gore of introducing Willie Horton into politics in 1988, only to find that the Vice President had none other than his old rival Michael Dukakis on hand to vouch that it hadn't been Gore's idea to put the racial tinge on the issue of prison furloughs but the Republicans'. When the former New Jersey Senator raised Gore's 1985 Senate vote against Bradley's antitobacco amendment, the Vice President's campaign called him desperate and made it stick...
Eskew has taken advantage of his long-standing relationship with the candidate to dispense with much of the imperial hauteur of Goreworld. Although the Vice President had been privately arguing for debates with Bradley as early as last spring, his advisers back then talked him out of it, dismissing such an unorthodox move as insanity for a front runner. Better to ignore Bradley entirely, they argued. "Gore sometimes felt like a prisoner in his own campaign," says a friend in whom the Vice President confided. Some of Gore's Old Guard grumbled privately when he finally laid down his challenge...
...always known that behind closed doors, in budget fights and partisan brawls, Gore was a pitiless enemy; and now he's taken it public. What was derided as a phony makeover turns out to bring us closer to the truth about Gore, and whatever limbs he rips off Bill Bradley, whatever truth he shaves and scars he leaves would be nothing compared with what he'd try to do to a Republican with whom he actually disagreed. He has been so effective that Republicans who once wanted to run against Gore now have the opposite fantasy. They want the lefty...
...Bradley knows this better than anyone. Mr. Authentic, with the well-worn shoes and soft voice and goodness platform, who hired the ad agency to help package him as the unpackaged candidate, said he wanted a different kind of campaign, noble and high protein. But Gore wanted to do it the old-fashioned way. Bradley might survive as the un-Politician but only if he is willing to fight for it and, by extension, fight for us. So far, he seems not to grasp the role televised debates play these days. They are no longer pro-bowl versions of high...