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...Alexander is an empty plaid shirt," Edwards said...
...rally around a man who tries to hide his views beneath a red plaid shirt? Former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander's campaign strategy is to convince the voters that no goodhearted person would vote against a man named Lamar. And how about Malcom S. "Steve" Forbes Jr.? After all, his father let him run his million-dollar magazine. The least we could do is let him run the country...
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...
...define who Alexander is. They have been collecting "opposition research" on him for months, and are wielding it, in ads and speeches as well as leaks to reporters, to take advantage of his soft, blurry image and to define him their way: as a hypocrite posing as a folksy, plaid-clad "outsider" while pocketing millions of dollars in profits from insider investment deals not available to the average American; as another slick Southern Governor who repeatedly raised taxes and now dares to run as a conservative. Alexander's communications director, Mark Merritt, retorts, "Bob Dole is desperate, and now that...
While Alexander struggled last week to duck the "liberal" label, another danger lurked: that his smooth, smiling, political persona would remind voters too much of that other former Southern Governor now sitting in the White House. The trademark red-and-black plaid shirt, which seemed fresh 18 years ago, now seems to some voters to be as contrived as some of Alexander's new political positions. No wonder he's the candidate Bill Clinton fears the most...