Word: gramm
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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...
...Democrats' crusade to take back Congress (or crucial to the Republicans' crusade to retain it, depending on your perspective). For those committed enough to their home state politics to get an absentee ballot, there are several interesting races, including the "David vs. Goliath" contest between Victor Morales and Phil Gramm in Texas and the perhaps lesser known, but still significant, re-election campaign of Max Baucus in Montana...
...March, it was an article of faith among those considering a '96 race that a serious candidate would have to raise at least $20 million by the end of 1995. As Dole moved swiftly to corral those funds, he had an ally in Texas Senator Phil Gramm. By raising nearly as much as Dole in the year before the voting began, Gramm dashed the hopes of other wannabes. Even such G.O.P. heavyweights as "the formers"--James Baker, who had been Secretary of State, and Dick Cheney, who had been Defense Secretary--shied from the challenge because the fund-raising task...
...Gramm imploded quickly, and the others who would make life difficult for Dole--Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes--were perceived as unserious crank candidates, but only eventually. Despite years of practice, Dole still couldn't say why he wanted the presidency or what he would do if he got it. "It's about us," he said. "It's about you. It's about America. It's about the future, which is where we are headed." The candidate seemed oblivious to the disbelief such inanities provoked. After most performances, he said, "You can feel it, can't you? It's working...
Working for Phil Gramm last winter, Alex Castellanos spent a lot of time figuring out ways to force Bob Dole into early retirement. But Gramm fizzled out early, and although Castellanos maintained good relations with the Dole camp, he figured he was finished for the rest of 1996. Then last week Dole tapped him to lead the advertising war against Bill Clinton. "It all proves that old Cuban saying," he said last Friday. "Never spit straight up in the air." And he never...