Word: kemp
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...executive branch on the very principle of opposition. What does Bob Dole have to offer America beside himself? Certainly he has no new ideas. And the ones he has dredged up from the past are absurd. Supply-side economics has been ridiculed by every economist except Jack Kemp, and so it was he who made a fine selection for a ticket bound to fail alongside its success-proof policies...
Unless or until Bob Dole gets moving, there will be only two interesting questions about Campaign '96: Can the Republicans keep control of the Congress, and will Al Gore or Jack Kemp show better in the game within the game--the race to be best positioned to strike for the top in 2000? Local factors, not presidential coattails, will largely govern the House and Senate contests, but Gore-Kemp is a national battle everyone can watch and measure...
...when told of Gingrich's comments. Dole must have had a sense of foreboding: by drama's end, Clinton's astutely negative television campaign would cleverly marry the two men's images to leave the impression that the (evil) Newt, rather than the late-chosen Jack Kemp, was really Dole's running mate...
...wasn't all a straight line to oblivion. As with his earlier speech bashing Hollywood, Dole got a lift when he resigned from the Senate in June and then again in August from a smoothly run G.O.P. convention. His selection of the energetically gifted Jack Kemp, whom Dole had reviled for years, was widely praised. But Dole's verbal and tactical missteps took their toll, confirming the electorate's fast-hardening negative verdict: Clinton was far from the heroic ideal, but Dole simply wasn't up to the job. Facing the hostility of many women voters, Dole tried modifying...
...CHASE After slagging teachers' union, Dole and Kemp now want to sit down with chief of the N.E.A...