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...Rudman, in short, offers the rarest of commodities in the current vice- presidential veepstakes -- Washington experience coupled with the image of a truth-telling outsider. For in the latest irony in a peculiar political year, both Clinton and Perot have been musing about similar -- even identical -- vice-presidential nominees. As political analyst Kevin Phillips puts it, "What Perot needs in a Vice President is someone who's political, yet puts the finger in the eye of the politicians. Someone like Rudman. And Clinton too needs a running mate who reinforces his outsider status with Perot swing voters...
...Clinton, still running third in the national polls, the vice- presidential choice represents his best opportunity to put his campaign back on track. The stakes are even higher for Perot, who needs to prove that he can govern without the benefit of a political party. But Perot also risks jeopardizing his all-things-to-all-voters appeal if he selects a Vice President who comes complete with heavy ideological baggage...
Jack Kemp, George Bush's disgruntled Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is one name being pushed hard in Perot circles. New York leveraged-buyout specialist Theodore Forstmann, a Kemp presidential fund raiser in 1988, is trying to broker a marriage between Kemp and Perot. Some of Kemp's political advisers argue that running with Perot represents Kemp's best chance to be elected President himself in 1996. Others counsel caution -- Kemp's favored political style -- contending that bolting the g.o.p. would permanently brand the supply-side conservative a pariah. Kemp's probable reluctance illustrates Perot's quandary in finding...
Third-party candidates often stumble badly in their quest for a plausible No. 2. Remember General Curtis ("Bomb Them Back to the Stone Age") LeMay, George Wallace's 1968 ticket mate? Perot has already tapped retired Admiral James Stockdale, a conservative former Vietnam pow, as his stand-in running mate to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Perot calls Stockdale his "fail- safe fallback" and has said that he will, if necessary, "just go with the team we have...
...Ross Perot, who often talks before he thinks, is currently in his denial mode. According to Perot, the well-sourced stories of his bizarre behavior and shoot-from-the-lip policy pronouncements are either gross distortions or outright lies, the product of Republican "dirty tricksters" and their running-dog co-conspirator, the toady press, which just "doesn't get it." Of the many tales Perot disputes, one in particular is troubling because the nub of the idea he denies advocating...