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...future that involves the past. In 1980, and to a lesser degree in 1984, President Reagan articulated a vision of the past, but divorced from a peculiarly appealing personality, that vision would be very difficult for anyone else to re-create, assuming that any candidate other than Jack Kemp would want to do so. After the Iran-contra scandal, the instances of criminality in the Administration, and, more relevantly, the stock-market crash and that alpine deficit, Reagan's past vision may also have played itself...
...Jack Kemp, the Boy Scout of supply-side economics, hates to speak ill of others. Like the "good shepherd" he so often cites, Kemp wants to convert both foe and friend to his vision of boundless growth through tax cuts and monetary reform. But so far his gauzy optimism has proved more boring than inspirational to voters; for months, he has idled near the bottom of the polls. Last week Pollyanna began to look more like Cruella De Ville: Kemp unleashed an uncharacteristically hard-nosed campaign that managed to rattle both George Bush and Bob Dole. In so doing...
...Catholic high school in Des Moines last week, Bush became so incensed when a young woman read questions about his flip-flops on abortion from a Kemp flier that he took it from her, tore it in two and declared, "Finis." That one gesture guaranteed week-long coverage for the conservative New York Congressman...
Dole, bracing himself for Bush to run negative ads about his wealth and his wife's trust fund, was blind-sided by a Kemp attack on Social Security. Some 120,000 elderly Iowans received an official-looking brown envelope marked IMPORTANT SOCIAL SECURITY INFORMATION ENCLOSED; in fact it contained Kemp material lambasting Dole's efforts to freeze cost-of-living adjustments in 1985. Outraged, Dole stormed across Iowa, accusing Kemp of using "marginal" tactics "to scare old people." Kemp Strategist Roger Stone exulted, "When you're attacked, it means you're in the race...
...younger workers who could not find jobs in a troubled farm-based economy. A University of Iowa study of recent graduates found that less than half continued to live within the state. "It scares me that Iowa is losing population," said Vern Harvey, a Bettendorf builder, after a recent Kemp rally in nearby Davenport. Replied Pete Agnew, an accountant in his late 30s: "People I know my age have gone to find the rainbow in California...