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...President seen the light? He says he has issued written instructions ordering his operatives to "stay out of the sleaze business," but the definition thing persists. "I don't know what's negative and what's not these days," says the man who views the famous Willie Horton TV ad as a fair examination of prison-furlough abuse...
...truly rough stuff will rise, virgin-like, from the same "independent expenditure" group that produced the Willie Horton ad in 1988. Four years ago, these conservative ideologues called themselves "Americans for Bush"; this time they're the "Presidential Victory Committee." They have a $10 million budget, and "what they'll do," says Stone, "is kind of obvious." All they've said so far is what they won't do: they won't establish a 900 number so the curious can hear the Gennifer Flowers tapes. Beyond that, every mini-scandal and Clinton slickery is considered fair game...
...claims Elvis would be a shoo-in. Bush will put up a hard fight. He'll undoubtedly revert to the sleazy tactics of his '88 campaign. Perhaps he'll run commercials with Little Richard complaining that Elvis stole all his songs. Perhaps he'll run commercials with Willie Horton complaining that Elvis stole all his songs. And Elvis' foreign policy inexperience will certainly cost the Democrats votes...
...doom Gary Hart's campaign when he invited the press to follow him around to see if he was up to any hanky-panky. And it's what helped do in Michael S. Dukakis when he rolled his eyes and ignored his staff's advice to counter the Willie Horton ad directly...
...class, appointed frightening Supreme Court Justices, broken his promises. When his non-plan plans have gone awry, he has refused to acknowledge problems--recession? What recession?--or blamed them on Congress. At least on the domestic front, it doesn't take a lip-reader to realize that the While Horton president has no principles beyond ensuring his own reelection...