Word: bradleyism
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George W. Bush spent the evening cautiously counterpunching his way to a points defeat at the hands of McCain; Al Gore and Bill Bradley went at it like welterweights, and while the Democratic challenger was still on his feet by the final bell, his championship prospects appear to have dimmed. Wednesday night's debate doubleheader for the most part appeared to confirm existing trends: Bush maintains his overall lead, although he may well lose a few to McCain along the way; Gore is way out in front of Bradley who, if he can't win in the Granite State...
...Romans. Being in broad agreement on most policy issues, each was trying to make the other look dishonest and inconsistent. And it was Gore, all aggressive trash-talking and sharp-elbowed rebounding, who looked more like a New York Knick. Squabbling over voting records and health plans denied Bradley the space to dunk over Gore, which he badly needed to do if he was going to reel in the vice president's lead. Where Bush had done his best to look presidential and hold himself above the fray, Gore didn't have to. He'll get plenty of opportunity...
...Gore has proposed that he and Bradley cancel their 30-second ads and instead meet every week to engage in another "debate." When he hears that, Bill Bradley rolls his eyes and shakes his pelican chin, and calls it "a ploy...
...ploy. It's an idea so hideous that Gore cannot possibly be sincere in proposing it. Did you see Wednesday night's event in New Hampshire? Gore and Bradley have perfected their performance. They sound like a guy and his brother-in-law who are forced to get together at Thanksgiving and for some reason - old family history, or maybe it's that one of them beat out the other for president of the student council a long time ago - cannot refrain from whining at each other, just this side of nastiness, as they split hairs over health care...
...Political commentators, in their theme-of-the-week, have pronounced that Al Gore has been transformed from his former soporific self to a master of the martial arts, all fiery aggression, while Bradley has declined from the thinking Democrat's alternative to a condescending loser, who, though we do not wish to make too much of it, has that fibrillating heart...