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...learn that Dobson distorted my work in a guest column. Not only did he misrepresent my research in saying that only mothers stress sympathy and care to their children and only fathers stress justice and fairness, but his citation of my work to support his attack on Mary Cheney's intention to raise her child with her lesbian partner is completely without foundation. CAROL GILLIGAN NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW New York City...
...Bush war room is going to war with itself. Beginning this month, the young White House and Bush-Cheney-campaign operatives who in 2004 monitored constant live feeds of candidate John Kerry and then mercilessly tormented him about his weakness for shrimp vindaloo, kite surfing and Sun Valley are splitting up and fanning out to competing Republican presidential campaigns--all knowing one another's moves and working from the same playbook. Those going to the John McCain and Rudy Giuliani campaigns already have their first juicy target: Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's evolving positions on abortion and gay rights. "Nobody...
...former Republican National Committee research director and master of the invisibly planted story, is going Romney. Brian Jones, 36, his former boss, went McCain. Most are protégés of Steve (Bullet) Schmidt, 36, the imposing workaholic who ran the 24-hour war room for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. Schmidt taught the cadre--some of whom are now in charge of large staffs at the '08 campaigns--that the news cycle ends with the 11:35 p.m. comedy shows and starts when the Associated Press sends out fresh stories shortly after midnight. Everyone in the Bush-Cheney diaspora...
...Schmidt is a senior adviser to McCain. So he's working against his understudy Kevin (Maddog) Madden, 34, who moved to Boston this week to be Romney's press secretary. Madden, whose slick GQ looks conceal an NBA metabolism, handled Bush-Cheney press for the swing states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. "There's a civil-war aspect to it," he says of the new teams. "In 2004 and all the way through the 2006 cycle, these were your brothers and sisters. But you have to remember that your job is to serve the candidates and their ideas...
...manage expectations once he was elevated into the presidency. Observers assumed that he would tack hard to the side of openness and sunlight to escape Nixon's shadow. But he wound up relying on a coterie of insiders - Nixon's own shadows - from Henry Kissinger to the young Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who had no less zeal for the imperial presidency than their predecessors under Nixon...