Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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George W. Bush was falling into a rut. For all his early success--a gaudy lead in the polls, a $37 million-and-rising war chest--the Texas Governor, after a month of delivering the same airy, slogan-rich speech, was sounding stale and tired by mid-July. His Republican opponents were calling him the all-money-and-no-message candidate, and the label was beginning to stick. (Sensitive to the charge, Bush half seriously asked his finance chairman if there was any way "to slow down" the flow of contributions.) And to make matters worse, Bill Clinton was trying...
...Bush the Younger has yet to learn the ways of running a campaign--and yet, long-time political journalists tell me that his campaign is better run than them all. First, they note, Bush, has a relatively small staff. He's known to switch speech topics at the last minute, change his schedule, and cancel events because he's too tired...
...Bush keeps his father's former aides on the periphery, and has left his campaign to Karl Rove, a brilliant personal friend who knows Bush a lot more than he knows about national campaigning...
...Bush people care about their candidate above all else. So when Bush campaign manager David Beckwith was unofficially fired two weeks ago, the press barely noticed...
...they do, they will likely nominate a moderate--the former Connecticut governor Lowell P. Weicker Jr.--for instance. Gore and Bush (or whomever the Democratic and Republican nominees) will be will have to think outside the box. The candidates will have to work hard--and really distinguish themselves--in order to get elected...