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...elected did not end with his aggressive flanking maneuver on welfare reform or a timely reminder of his opposition to gay marriage. Instead it ended with the Clinton-Gore campaign buying $1.2 million worth of ads that suggested to viewers that the only thing Bob Dole had done lately was "quit." And it climaxed with a bitter exchange over abortion, in which charges and countercharges over piety and principle flew back and forth with a startling ferocity. It became the week to talk about values, but the values most often invoked last week--like civility, decency, personal responsibility--were...
...have a thousand miles to walk and someone keeps stealing your shoes. Imagine that you have decided to risk everything to win the woman you love and you keep stumbling over your rival, already kneeling before her, reciting the lines you had carefully rehearsed. Imagine that you are Bob Dole, just a man, trying to get some traction while running for President. And every time you think you have spotted firm, sensible, conservative ground, there is the Democratic President already crouching in ambush. "If this keeps up, Bill Clinton won't have to make speeches anymore," Dole grumbled last week...
Most elections do not unfold like Homeric epics; instead they tend to turn on just a handful of moments, four or five instances in which the voters' hunches are confirmed or shattered, normally without warning and sometimes without anyone's realizing it at the time. For Clinton and Dole last week may well prove to be one such moment. Over the course of six days, Clinton defended his fortress in the political center by making headline-grabbing announcements on welfare reform, on the right of states to disavow homosexual unions, and on affirmative action, just when Bob Dole had hoped...
...Dole's part that stern prairie sense of honor, so widely hailed when he stepped down from the Senate two weeks ago, also risks being compromised. Dole has recently seemed so eager to intensify his profile with voters that he has even disavowed his own proposals simply because Clinton accepted them. Five weeks ago, he suggested that he and Clinton should get together to negotiate the budget, then he backed off when the White House accepted. Three weeks ago, he offered separate votes on the minimum wage and the gas tax, and reversed himself as soon as Democrats went along...
...welfare experiment, which would abolish all federal guarantees of cash assistance and instead require welfare recipients to work for their benefits. The White House has been following the state's experiment closely; this is the stuff Clinton likes to read in bed. Clinton also knew that the following Tuesday, Dole would be traveling to Wisconsin to deliver his big welfare address. Knowledge of the Republican choreography, a Clinton strategist says, "drove the timing of our response, if not the substance...