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...moment last week, two traits of Bob Dole the lawmaker came to the rescue of Bob Dole the candidate--the ability to swallow your pride and to make peace with your past. To arrive at the astonishing choice of Jack Kemp as his running mate, a man who has spent a good part of his political career spearing Bob Dole, required both. Dole admitted as much in a Thursday-night phone call to Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, his successor as majority leader and a good friend of Kemp's. If Kemp was the one, Dole told Lott, it would...
...Kemp is the one, and his anointment by Dole adds not just excitement but something like psychological fascination to the campaign. Dole, who has said he wanted his running mate to be "a 10," introduced Kemp on Saturday with the words "I got a 15," a play on the former quarterback's jersey number. As a matter of sheer political accounting, who can argue? Wildly popular with large segments of his party, Kemp also has the crucial potential to appeal beyond them. His support for immigration, school and housing vouchers and affirmative action gives him appeal to minorities and women...
...chief congressional architects of Reagan's 1981 tax cuts, Kemp opens a direct channel in voter memory to the era of good feeling that was early Reaganism. Though not identified with the controversial Christian wing of the party, he also has the longtime pro-life credentials to satisfy them. Originally from California, he polls well in that crucial state, where Dole is trailing Clinton by 25 points...
Above all, Kemp is a man with vision and optimism to spare, the perfect antidote to Dole's asperity and narrow focus. But the potential for conflict that he brings to the campaign is also inescapable. Kemp the supply-side tax cutter and Dole the dogged budget balancer have been ideological enemies for almost two decades. At some point the political antagonism tilted into the personal. Kemp was partly responsible for the single most painful political betrayal in Dole's life. In 1985, after the supply-side tax cuts championed by Kemp were followed by an exploding federal deficit, Dole...
Even if that could be forgotten, there have been more recent offenses. Last March, in a typically quixotic move, Kemp endorsed the presidential bid of fellow supply-sider Steve Forbes, just eight days before Forbes withdrew from the race. Last month, after complaining in public that Dole had been slow to put together an economic plan, Kemp jumped in with his own highly publicized "growth seminar" on taxes, held in Washington...