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...seized the initiative and a lead in the polls - will he get the benefit of the doubt? Even what passes for the high ground in a McCain- and Bradley-less fight? Well, Gore will need some serious political tiptoes to pull it off, but luckily his most strident critics are already voting Republican. And luckily, for disgusted undecideds suspicious of whether a former coffee-giver-in-chief can change the system, the alternative this year is George W. Bush, who doesn't seem to think there's much wrong with the system in the first place...
...there during his first presidential campaign, in 1988, when he twisted the facts when attacking Michael Dukakis and baited Dick Gephardt for flip-flopping on abortion, an issue on which Gore had flip-flopped. And it was there when he demolished Ross Perot, Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley in debates...
...Bush from his lungs by slicing and dicing his record in Texas and his "risky" policies. (Joe Lieberman will help with that too.) The strategy carries dangers for Gore, since many voters say they don't like him when he attacks. But Gore proved in his primary contest with Bradley that Americans expect their politicians to battle about ideas. Exit polls consistently showed that voters liked Gore because he "fights for people like...
...debate against Jack Kemp: "If you won't use any football stories," Gore said, "I won't tell any warm and humorous stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement." This time around, she has helped develop lines like "The presidency is not an academic exercise," which Gore used to nail Bill Bradley in the primaries. She tweaks Gore's speeches and debate answers, always pushing him to speak plainly and with heart. One of her key contributions, says her mother, is that Karenna doesn't "soft-soap it." Her father recalls an occasion when all the hired hands told him he'd given...
...instance, pushed to bring in Naomi Wolf, the feminist writer who advocates, among other things, teaching children the value of masturbation. Wolf's $15,000-a-month salary and memos pushing Gore to be an "alpha male" left the candidate withered by weeks of derisive press just as Bill Bradley started to make his big break in New Hampshire...