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...amazement of many in the White House, Dole never played to his greatest strength. "The remarkable thing," admits a White House official, "is that he was ready-made and loaded to be the guy to do this, to be the one to make this case. If he had said, 'Let me, as the last member of that generation to serve, be the leader for the next, to show our children and our grandchildren the bounty of America and how to sacrifice for that bounty,' well, that would have been something...
That might have come naturally to Dole; but instead he tried something harder. He tried to change. For the entire first half of the race, his fear of Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan was enough to shake his faith in running as himself, a pragmatist against the ideologues, one who was willing to "downsize government, [but] not devastate it," as he said in May 1995. When Buchanan started peeling the paint off the walls with his talk of America's greedy corporations, Dole was suddenly George Meany, denouncing corporate layoffs. Soon his campaign was a battleground state...
...aide once said he didn't expect voters to fall in love with Bob Dole. "But they might," he said, "fall in love with the archetype he represents." Likening himself to Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, Dole said, "We're not articulate or whatever, but we like to tell the truth, and we feel bad if we don't tell the truth." He may have been a true Washington insider, but he could have argued for his record of being able to get things done. He may have shifted positions over the years where expediency and vote counting demanded...
...candidate, Dole could hardly market his essential nature when he was so busy repackaging it. By the time he had dispensed with Gramm and the rest, he had abandoned his long-standing support for affirmative action and taken a much harder line on illegal immigration. He had led the fight to repeal the ban on assault weapons, then shifted positions a year later. He had morphed into a movie critic, of films he hadn't seen. He had called Steve Forbes' flat tax "snake oil" in February but by August had become a born-again supply-sider. "I'm willing...
...time Clinton swept into Chicago, he was able to frame the race as a choice between building a bridge to the past or building a bridge to the future. And Dole never seemed to get his footing after that. One man talked about giving women an extra 24 hours in the hospital after birth, and another saw children by the side of the road in New Jersey and said out loud, "There's a tax cut. There's another. $500." On the day Dole invoked the "Brooklyn Dodgers," Clinton went to the Grand Canyon--and with the stroke...