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That column was meant to be humorous, but the idea of Bush picking an attorney general as his running mate is still a good one. It's just that the man for the job isn't Meese, it's Richard L. Thornburgh...
...weeks ago, I jokingly suggested in a column that Vice President George Bush select Edwin Meese III as his running mate for the Republican presidential ticket. By picking the attorney general, I wrote, Bush would put the sleaze factor squarely in his column and lock up the general election...
...director of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics (IOP) and the former governor of Pennsylvania was nominated last month to replace the departing Meese as the head of the Justice Department. He had been mentioned as a possible running mate before his nomination, but since then his name has been largely ignored when political observers discuss the GOP ticket...
...Thornburgh were named as the vice presidential running mate after the hearings, there is no way that Kennedy, or any of the other Democrats who will praise Thornburgh during the appointment hearings, could criticize him as incompetent or lacking integrity...
...effect of Bush selecting Thornburgh as his running mate, would be to nullify one of the main criticisms weighing down his campaign--the Reagan Republican sleaze factor. Today, Thornburgh will be widely praised as a man of great personal integrity by the Senate leaders, many of whom will also take the opportunity to criticize the indiscretions of Meese. In choosing Thornburgh--the antithesis of Meese--Bush can project an image of a cleaner and more honest administration...