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...girl to dance at the prom--that voters who meet him think he can't be for real, and so conclude that he must be. Unlike Dole, he has a single, clear message--Mr. Flat Tax--shellacked onto his forehead. Unlike both Dole and Phil Gramm, he is not a member in good standing of the American government. And unlike any other Republican, including Newt Gingrich, Forbes can present himself as a true revolutionary...
...Gramm has shrewdly focused on states where his message has greater purchase. He aims to win in Louisiana's little-watched caucuses six days before the Iowa contest and to offset the impact of a likely Dole victory in New Hampshire on Feb. 20 with a win in Delaware four days later. The former economics professor and onetime Democrat hopes to be ahead in delegates by March 1 and "break out" with a win in conservative South Carolina on March...
Dole last week dismissed Gramm's tactics, saying, "This is not going to work." But just in case, Dole's campaign long ago market-tested a series of television spots attacking the Texas Senator, which a senior Dole campaign official boasts are unusually effective. What might those ads say? A Dole operative hints that they might compare Dole's war record with Gramm's five Vietnam-era draft deferments. In Iowa last Friday, Gramm ridiculed the Dole camp's frequent allusions to his military record, deftly making the point in the context of the budget talks. "If saying 'I served...
...spend it as he wants. This means that in New Hampshire and Iowa (with spending ceilings of $600,000 and $1.1 million, respectively), Forbes will probably outspend his rivals 2 to 1. Overall, he will soon report expenditures of about $15 million. That's less than Dole and Phil Gramm (about $20 million each), but both have spent so heavily on overhead that Forbes has been free to dominate the airwaves in the early-contest states, at least...
Through it all, Forbes seems a reluctant candidate. As a longtime Jack Kemp fan, Forbes concedes that he wouldn't be running if Kemp were. And Forbes thinks Dole could co-opt him by stealing his tax-reform ideas, as Gramm and Pat Buchanan have done. Dole's problem, says Forbes, is that "he only responds to his In box. No initiative, no ideas of his own. Everything he's done for 35 years has been exactly the wrong training for the Oval Office. I shouldn't offer him advice," he continues, but Dole could "learn from Alfred P. Sloan...