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...dirty little secret in the politics of virtue is that conservatives aren't vastly better at taking this sort of bitter medicine. Newt Gingrich, as is well known, left his first wife and their two daughters. Bob Dole left his first wife and their daughter. And both men, in classic male fashion, then married younger women. Does Republican moralist-in-chief Bennett think Dole and Gingrich, in this regard, are good? Does he think they're bad? He has never said. But if a take-no-prisoners crusade to restore the American family doesn't involve heaping shame on this...
...ceded those to the G.O.P. Morris, who in recent years worked mostly for Republican candidates, had given Clinton a way to reclaim those issues. Under Morris' prodding, the President made this year a succession of family-friendly initiatives on school uniforms, V chips and teen smoking. As Bob Dole would say: Whatever...
Gleeful Republicans tried to contain themselves while they gauged how to make the most of the Morris blowup. In Santa Barbara, California, Bob Dole was alternately relaxing and making the occasional campaign appearance in a crucial state he still shows no serious sign of winning. At one of his appearances, a radio reporter's microphone picked up Dole talking to two supporters about the Morris scandal. Said he: "It says something about who you surround yourself with, doesn...
...Republicans have to be careful about making too much out of Morris, whose clients have included such conservative Republicans as North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, the new majority leader. For now, Dole campaign sources say, they are not likely to exploit the scandal in a negative television ad. "A Morris spot would anger a substantial number of Republican heavyweights," says a Dole aide. "A scandal like this is too easy to overplay. You just stay out of the way and let it do its damage...
...only thing that would please Republicans more than Morris' departure would be any hint between now and November that he has secretly resumed an advisory role with the White House. Morris insisted to TIME last week that his departure from the campaign is final. Dole strategists are betting it isn't. "If they don't bring anyone else in, that means he's still running things," says a hopeful-sounding Republican. "And when that gets out, the Morris affair gets brand-new legs...