Word: kerrey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Draft questions still plague Clinton," reported the Wall Street Journal on its front page last Friday. The item added that to fend off Republican attacks on this score, Clinton may feel compelled to pick as his running mate his erstwhile rival Bob Kerrey, who lost a leg and won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam...
MAYBE ABE LINCOLN wasn't really born in a log cabin, but he certainly wasn't rich, or even middle-class. And he became president--while in the 1990's, Bob Kerrey and Paul Tsongas couldn't even afford to hang on until the Democratic Convention...
...Kerrey and Tsongas did the voters a disservice when they dropped out of the race. If they had stayed in and conducted less expensive no-frills campaigns--as Tsongas did at the start--they might have helped shift the focus of the electoral process from images to ideas. Instead, Kerrey blew all his money on PR, and even Tsongas attempted to fight on Clinton's terms. This just reinforced the destructive notion that the race is to the slick...
...KERREY (-2) A war hero with high name recognition. But erratic. Try John Kerry of Massachusetts: he's strong on foreign affairs, and besides half the voters think he's Bob Kerrey anyway...
...become a national sport. Richard Gephardt, whose 1988 presidential campaign pioneered postcommunist xenophobia, gave us a precursor of the game with his anti-Korea TV ads. Michael Dukakis got more to the point with a campaign ad featuring an ominously rising sun. Now even a sensible moderate like Bob Kerrey goes on TV openly exhorting his countrymen to "Fight back, America," leaving little doubt as to whom we are to fight now that the Soviets are no more...