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...years the Republican solution for the grievances of the middle class have been lower taxes, less government. And the G.O.P. primary front runners are on message. With his plaid shirts and his footwork across the early primary states, Lamar Alexander has been straining for the common touch. But for the most part his populism identifies the standard G.O.P. villain, Washington. Steve Forbes? Enough said. As for Dole, his parents were so poor that during the Depression they moved the family to the basement of their house so they could rent the main floor to an oil company manager...
After the New Hampshire primary, Lamar Alexander attributed his strong showing in large part to his opposition to the use of negative advertisements--and not, say, the belief among voters that he would perform well as president. (Imagine asserting at a job interview that one of your best credentials is that you refuse to criticize any of the other applicants.) He even ran ads attacking Dole for running negative...
Kathy Holmes teaches kindergarten at a religious school in Epsom. She has been a volunteer for Lamar Alexander since last spring, and points to her checkered skirt as evidence of her commitment. A devout Baptist, she regularly attends church, where the pastor has been preaching on the Book of Corinthians for almost a year...
...wished [Alexander] would run for president, didn't think he would, then he said he would and I started to get excited, then John McLauglin said that he wouldn't be surprised if Lamar was the one, and then I got it in the realm of realness, and volunteered.... I stuffed some envelopes, went around some neighborhoods, I rode my bike around my neighborhood and dropped off some brochures. The other thing about him that I like is that he wants to push local control, and in New Hampshire we've certainly learned that that...
...things get any worse for Bob Dole, don't be surprised to see him wearing Lamar! Alexander's plaid shirt or Pat Buchanan's brown one. Even the Granite State results have not been able to shake Dole into coherence. Still flailing the day after New Hampshire, Dole boldly declared that "intolerance cannot be tolerated...