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...PHIL GRAMM With a skill that eluded him during Oval Office bid, he creates an issue: the "Clinton...
...astonished to get Perot's call. Ordinarily, you can say pretty much anything you want to about politicians. Far from complaining, they're likely to join in. At the beginning of the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, for instance, commentators danced around the question of whether Senator Phil Gramm had come up short in the looks department--something on the order of what I'd implied, in the friendliest sort of way, about corgis...
...Gramm take offense? Did his supporters write letters to newspapers and magazines about his loyalty, his interesting gait, his ever alert nature and his ability to learn simple tricks much faster than a golden retriever? Not at all. Senator Gramm, relentlessly working on his comedy timing the way he has relentlessly worked on his Senate career, publicly took up the question of whether an ugly man can be elected President...
...Gramm was responding in the approved manner. Politicians, most of whom are the sort of people who take themselves too seriously, take very seriously the dangers inherent in appearing to take themselves too seriously. What made Don Imus' speech at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner front-page news was the White House suggestion that C-SPAN not rebroadcast it. That was unusual enough to meet the old city-editor test for a story: man bites dog (no special breed). Politicians are supposed to be nearly insult proof, in the way that people associated with the Mob are libel proof...
BUCHANAN 1,523,900 $11 million $ 7.22 DOLE 3,660,800 $27 million $ 7.38 KEYES 173,500 $ 2 million $ 11.53 FORBES 1,240,500 $30 million $ 24.18 ALEXANDER 393,400 $12 million $ 30.50 LUGAR 53,500 $ 7 million $130.84 GRAMM 42,800 $24 million...