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These two words are shorthand for the proposition that the solution to the Clinton mystery is his opponent. Even many Republicans seem to believe that only by nominating a hopeless candidate could they manage to be losing to such a vulnerable incumbent. If Dole in fact loses, the question of how a ruthlessly efficient election machine like the modern Republican party managed to bungle its nomination so badly will be oft pondered. Even if he wins somehow, the question probably won't go away...
...happen? Dole, goodness knows, represents no strong ideological position. He has no large popular following. He has no natural campaign skills that cry out to be exploited. Although an admirable person in many ways, Dole is not, in short, the end point of any rational selection process for a major party's presidential nomination. In retrospect, the Republicans seem to have anointed Dole out of such admirably unpragmatic, old-fashioned motives as honoring achievement and deference to seniority that were thought to be long dead in the Grand Old Party. Which brings...
Dick Morris' brain was in orbit. It was late July, and the President's political consultant--the co-author of his campaign message and advertising, the strategist who helped Clinton scoop up Republican issues and ideas on his way to a double-digit lead over Bob Dole--was returning again and again to a problem he thought might hurt Clinton's re-election. Not welfare reform, because Morris had already won that fight, but taxes. Clinton had promised a middle-class tax cut in 1992 but delivered a tax increase on the wealthy instead. Now Dole was getting ready...
...during a strategy session in the White House residence. Sitting in his usual pose--head cocked to one side, hands shaping the air in front of him, small frame pumped with manic energy--Morris urged Clinton to propose a capital-gains cut on Aug. 1, a few days before Dole was to release his plan. Clinton could say the cut would "pay for itself," Morris enthused, by stimulating investment and boosting tax revenue. But it was a brazen idea, an affront to the Administration's posture of fiscal rectitude. In fact, the White House was planning to ridicule Dole...
...months Morris has been telling other political players that Clinton "has the race put away." In truth, Morris frets at night, imagining that he's running Dole's campaign and plotting against his own best moves. His basic strategy over the next two months is simple and familiar. Just as Clinton's 1996 State of the Union speech was a blueprint for six months' worth of Executive actions--each one ensuring press attention--so Clinton's acceptance speech this week will lay out some 30 policies (like taking handguns away from men convicted of spousal abuse) to be rolled...