Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vice President's "Love Me for Me" tour, but at an event capping the exercise, the Vice President got a little something his campaign has recently lacked: a lucky break. It came in the form of gun control, the first real fight he can take to Governor Bush of Texas, and a fight that Americans might even watch closely in this prenatal presidential campaign...
...Gore needed two things last week: a 10-ft. pole to distance himself from Bill Clinton and an issue to distance himself from George W. Bush...
...Crowd-Pleasers have the unique ability to score positive numbers in the polls without actually declaring either candidacy or policies ?- rather like George W. Bush in the early part of 1999. Crowd-Pleasers try to mimic Ronald Reagan?s knack for making people feel good about him without ever really being able to articulate why (although unlike today?s wussy centrists, of course, Reagan actually took firm and controversial policy stands). Of course, media plays a critical role in generating those feelings. But it wouldn?t be possible without some basic charisma. They?re not sure why they...
...assuming that the progeny of great leaders will make great leaders themselves. But the Inheritors benefit from a considerable nostalgia ?- maybe a secret longing for a monarchy? ?- which gives political brats an electoral advantage that goes well beyond name recognition. Consider the dynastic allure of surnames such as Kennedy, Bush and Gandhi. (Of course it helps when the candidate can be at once Inheritor and White Knight, a political neophyte with an epic last name, such as India's Sonia Gandhi...
...George W. Bush, Texas Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Inheritor, Healer, Crowd-Pleaser, Thinker, Difference-Splitter...