Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hampshire, it was Dole, not Bush, who launched the first strike. Several days after Iowa, the Dole campaign aired a slick, well-made ad featuring joint head shots of the Senator and the Vice President. The announcer listed areas in which Dole claimed that he had shown leadership -- Social Security, INF, tax cuts -- and then said in a stentorian voice, "George Bush had nothing to do with it." Each time, Bush's image faded a little more, until it finally vanished...
With only three days of campaigning left in New Hampshire, tracking polls showed Bush trailing Dole by as much as 9 points. Roger Ailes, Bush's media consultant, advocated the use of negative ads to derail Dole. Bush hesitated. But on Saturday morning he agreed to run the ad some dubbed the "Two Faces of Dole." Over head shots of Bush and Dole, an announcer praised Bush's leadership on various questions, then declared that Dole had "straddled" the issues...
...Republican contest, Sen. Robert Dole (R.-Kan.) scored an impressive victory in the South Dakota Republican primary last night and bid for a back-up win in Minnesota's presidential caucuses, with Vice President George Bush far behind in both states. Dole defeated former television evangelist Pat Robertson to win Minnesota's Republican presidential caucuses last night, with Bush a distant fourth behind Rep. Jack Kemp...
...Dole, a loser last week in New Hampshire, said, "It's a lot more fun winning...
...supports Pat Robertson because he's very conservative and will make sure the GOP platform stays that way. Bush and Dole pledge to broaden the base of the Republican party. But mom fears they'll compromise Republican principles in an effort to attract moderates. Robertson is broadening the base of the party, too--but he is signing up thousands of evangelicals and born-again Christians, a move mom supports. He is also wooing thousands of conservative Southern voters, who are switching party affiliation so they can vote in the GOP primaries...