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MANCHESTER, N.H.--Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole officially launched his presidential campaign yesterday at a speech before 1000 supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire...
...that one of the 1988 contenders is a hidden F.D.R. may be the only comfort amid the dreary landscape of their economic pronouncements and records. None of the top-tier candidates in either party can claim to be talking sense to the American people. A few, such as Bob Dole and Michael Dukakis, can point to past accomplishments. But, for the most part, economic leadership is inversely proportional to standing in the polls. Bruce Babbitt in particular has advanced a laudable program on the deficit; most surveys put him last among the Democrats...
...ridiculed as the party of litmus- test politics, bowing to the pressures of peace activists, labor unions, minority groups and feminists. But last week's debate revealed the degree to which the Republicans are tugged by their own special interests: right-wing red hots. Front Runners Bush and Robert Dole found themselves pitted against a field of yapping underdogs, each catering to causes championed by conservative activists. Haig, du Pont, Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson all blasted Bush's ardent support for the proposed medium-range missile treaty; this attempt to score points by implying that Ronald Reagan...
Reagan was once strong enough to keep the party's competing right-wing factions under one tent. But Bush and Dole lack his infectious appeal. As a result, each of their challengers is trying to capitalize on different touchstones of the "True Believers." Kemp is the fervent supply-sider, du Pont the apostle of free markets and Haig of standing tough and tall in the world. Perhaps most significant is Robertson's role as the Republican Jesse Jackson. The televangelist was never challenged on any of his debate statements, even when he claimed that the lost earnings of aborted fetuses...
Ideology is only part of the Republican message problem. Despite his forcefulness in Houston, Bush failed to articulate a compelling rationale for his candidacy. Far more glaring was Dole's discomfort with any substantive discussion, save for his mantra-like promises to provide "strong leadership." The danger is that Bush and Dole, in swatting away the far more ideological underdogs, will each be viewed as fitting the description from Henry Adams' 1880 novel, Democracy: "He had . . . a statesmanlike contempt for philosophical politics. He loved power, and he meant to be President. That was enough...