Word: plaids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...deliver threats in an unthreatening way. He can imply that Bob Dole is too old and it doesn't sound mean, that Bill Clinton is a liar and it doesn't sound disrespectful. When he arrived Tuesday night in Laconia, the hall was packed and sprinkled with plaid; the crowd was ready to shop for something new. Without so much as a stumble, Alexander delivered the smoothest speech since Clinton's State of the Union. By targeting Clinton he gave voters a taste of what a Southern, baby-boom Governor match would look like. "This is a President who reads...
Suddenly in the spotlight, Alexander's challenge was simply to be genuine. His gimmicky campaign of plaid shirts and long walks has suffered not just from want of attention but also from an abundance of contradictions. He is yet another former Nixon staff member posing as an outsider, a man who boasts about his plans to abolish the Education Department he once headed, a man who rails against insiders but seems to have profited handsomely from being one; a man who complains of mudslinging but was the first in the field to use a negative ad, against Pete Wilson last...
...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...
...presidency is a seat of power. Unlike the red-and-black trademarked Alexander, we shouldn't care whether it is covered in plaid. In terms of substance, the public has heard very little. CNN's sound bite from NBC's "Meet the Press" with Alexander has the candidate saying that he was chock full of new ideas, yet he didn't mention one. He comes across as just another hollow option...