Word: kempe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dumbstruck, the crowd stood mute. Afterward, Kemp slumped in a folding chair. For the first time in 25 years, I saw an incredible force depressed. "This isn't my party anymore," he brooded. "You saw it. They rejected the message. Without compassion, the party will have no future. And I won't either...
Three months later, pleading a distaste for fund raising, Kemp announced that he wouldn't run in '96 after...
...back, the beneficiary of desperation. Kemp will probably deny his private, pessimistic musings about Dole, the ones uttered to friends last spring, and denying them will be easy for him. Kemp long ago mastered an essential element of politics, the art of behaving as if no one has any memory. He will enthusiastically and repeatedly praise a man he has loathed, and preacher that he is, he may even come to believe what he says...
...before he was drafted last week, Kemp thought Dole was doomed. The Senator might have a chance if, say, Clinton were indicted in the Whitewater case, Kemp said last April. But short of that, victory seemed impossible. Kemp marveled at Dole's stamina but contended that the Senator was "old and tired in the ideas sense." And even if Dole believed in the kind of policies that could excite people, Kemp reasoned, Dole's legislative mind-set would probably cause him to "make a mess of it." Clinton, Kemp concluded, "will kill...
...maybe not them. Kemp has the true believer's ability to sell. If he, rather than Dole, can be propelled to the forefront, maybe Clinton will expire instead. "But the No. 2s never get you much," Democratic patriarch Larry O'Brien once said, as he recalled the equally odd coupling of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in 1960. "They can help some, as Lyndon did in Texas, and that's why you choose someone you can't stand. But in the end, it's the guy on top who carries you." Or doesn...