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...starting to emerge. The preferred model for action at the moment is actually eight years old: in 1988 George Bush trailed Michael Dukakis by 16 points three months before the G.O.P. convention. So Bush and his advisers spent those months defining the candidate in a series of speeches. Dole has followed the Bush playbook through the primaries this year, and most of his advisers favor sticking with it through the summer, culminating in a defining address at the Republican convention. Another run at Noonan is inevitable...
Last week, when Dole sat down with Bush to discuss China and other matters, he could take comfort from the ex-President's experience. But not too much. Bush won the White House after facing one of the most hapless campaigners in memory. Dole is facing one of the best...
...inception in 1938--at two bits an hour--the minimum wage has been attacked by economists and capitalist zealots as a prime example of wrongheaded government meddling. Let the market set wages, they say, not Washington. Yet politicians, including at times none other than Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, have resisted that view. Dole argued in 1974 that "a living wage for a fair day's work is a hallmark of the American economic philosophy." Recently, however, the positions have flipped, with a rising number of economists arguing for a minimum-wage boost--and Dole holding fast against...
...that? Is Clinton's opportunistic floppery on, say, balancing the budget any more egregious than Bob Dole's on, say, abortion? Ronald Reagan's California business chums bought him a house while he was President, to barely a peep of protest; yet we are in our fourth year of pawing through the much smaller financial favors Clinton's Arkansas business chums tried to do him 14 years ago when he was Governor...
...something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you'd probably leave them with Bob Dole." --BOB DOLE LAST WEEK AT A CAMPAIGN STOP IN PENNSYLVANIA...