Word: doled
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...large national base from which to build a campaign. After Bush and Cheney, the Arizona Senator is the party's best-known face and has a proven appeal to Democrats and independents. "John McCain is positioned to be the front runner. Period," says Scott Reed, who managed Bob Dole's 1996 presidential...
Erskine Bowles looks like the same Southern gentleman he was two years ago when he ran a meek and losing campaign against Elizabeth Dole, but he's no longer acting like one. Instead, President Clinton's former chief of staff is hammering away at U.S. Representative Richard Burr for the 80,000 jobs the state's textile and furniture industries have lost. Both candidates are having to backpedal ferociously to justify their past support for free trade...
...fullback’s couch—was often interrupted during his “inspirational speeches” (which involved little more than the word “fuck” repeated in varying heavy Glaswegian intonations) by players making fun of him for being on the dole. The team even had its groupies, but unlike the gorgeous blonde cheerleaders of American lore, this was a hodgepodge assembly of four or five socially dysfunctional girls who, unless one had knocked quite a few back, slightly resembled our linemen...
Those “couple exceptions” are obvious: the two Clinton elections, in which a tired and hapless George H.W. Bush, and a tired and hapless Bob Dole, could not help but succumb to the honeysuckle seek-and-destroy tactics, and coherent New Democrat vision, of a political master. But even setting the Lewinsky imbroglio aside, Clinton failed to translate his personal talent into any lasting gains for his party...
...instantly fought over its message. In the TV spot, a soldier holds his rifle above his head as he sinks up to his chest in the desert quicksands; a narrator remarks, "George Bush got us into this quagmire. It will take a new President to get us out." Bob Dole, who chairs Bush's veterans coalition, charged that "depicting an American soldier in effect surrendering in the battle against the terrorists is beyond the pale." MoveOn officials insisted that the soldier was not surrendering and that the ad was designed to highlight a deteriorating situation that the Administration has denied...