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They can't afford to be judged on their record or on their vision for the future. They can't afford to be judged on Ronald Reagan's standard: Are you better off than you were four years ago? Or on the "kinder, gentler" standard. Would you be better off four years from now? And that's what I've got to remind the people...
...minimalist strategy will make it easier for Bush to manage his coalition of right-wingers and yuppie moderates. In 1988, after running to the right in the primaries, Bush reached out to independents in the fall with the "kinder and gentler" clean-air and child-care initiatives, and he won easily. But in a three-man race, such overtures may be unnecessary, even unwise. Conservative Republicans have never really liked or trusted Bush, and they could bolt to Perot if the President starts sounding moderate again...
Pinkerton said the President strives for "a kinder, gentler America," but that bureaucratic intertia stops him form fully implementing his policies...
...recession at home and looking for someone to blame for the greed spawned by the conservative revolution of the '80s. They wanted to talk about domestic issues: health care, education and, of course, jobs. To distinguish himself from the perceived heartlessness of his predecessor, the incumbent called for a kinder, gentler nation. It was a nice touch, if somewhat undermined by the negative campaign tactics he used to needle his main challenger, a hardworking and agile -- maybe too agile -- politician who called for "change" at every turn and struck voters as not entirely trustworthy. The race was a cliff-hanger...
Guess what? The economy, still allergic to Belaunde, went blooey again. When the kinder, gentler APRA went head to head with Belaunde in 1985, it thrashed him. APRA's Alan Garcia, a populist who was liked but not as revered as el Jefe had been, campaigned on such perennially crowd-pleasing issues as screwing the International Monetary Fund and not paying off Peru's debts...