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...before Bush's feigned distress. Minutes after Bill Clinton won the New York food fight last Tuesday, Republican Party chairman Rich Bond gleefully recalled Jerry Brown's characterization of Clinton as "the prince of sleaze." They've "got them all on tape," says Bond. "Paul Tsongas calling Clinton a 'Pander Bear'; Ed Koch saying, 'It happens that Bill Clinton has no credibility'; Mario Cuomo calling Clinton's middle-class tax cut 'a joke.' We've got 'em, and you'll be seeing 'em. It ain't gonna be pretty...
...wonder the last few administrations have been insensitive to the poor, when successful presidential candidates must either be wealthy themselves or pander to rich special interest groups in order to survive the campaign process...
PAUL TSONGAS (+2) All he lacks is charisma, which Clinton has in excess. Drawbacks: He doesn't need the job, and who could ever forget "Pander Bear...
Then a suddenly bellicose Tsongas attacked Clinton personally as a "cynical and unprincipled politician," a "pander bear" eager to promise everything to everyone. Jetting around the South, Clinton told reporters at a late-night press conference in Nashville that Tsongas was the real panderer, with Wall Street the prime beneficiary, and that Tsongas had belied his image as a "truth teller" by lying about the impact of Clinton's position on a middle-class tax cut. A Tsongas ad had implied that the reduction would worsen the deficit. Clinton's plan would offset the loss with a higher rate...
...maneuvering in recent weeks. First, critics said Ford was slow to take the Reagan challenge seriously, in part because the former actor did not win a primary until the North Carolina contest in late March 1976. Apart from banning the word detente at the White House, Ford refused to pander to the party's right wing. Instead he crisscrossed the country to meet Reagan head on, in a series of trips that made him look desperate and distinctly nonpresidential...