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Carter badly needs to be born again, this time politically. He has been off on a gaffe-a-week streak, and he can scarcely afford another week like the past two. His remarks on sex in an ill-advised interview with Playboy (see story page 33), his gratuitous insult in listing Lyndon Johnson along with Richard Nixon as a President who had "lied" to the American people, the distortion of his confused and confusing remarks on tax policy?all these and more have hurt him. He has also been damaged by some disarray in his campaign organization and disputes between...
...tougher questions. Robert Hughes, Republican chairman of Ohio's Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, thought that last week's panel tossed too many soft questions at the candidates. "Where were the tough questions? Abortion. Busing. Playboy. The purpose of these debates is to challenge these two guys, and that wasn't done...
American voters have come to expect simpler images-and simpler answers-from their politicians than Carter provides. A candidate who tries to appeal to Playboy readers on one hand (see following story) and to evangelicals on the other, who promises tax reform but says he does not know enough yet to provide details, who talks both to God and Rock Superstar Gregg Allman, violates all the unwritten political norms. By appealing to such differing constituencies, he has magnified the uncertainties about his character and positions. Those doubts could cost him an election that seemed to be his for the taking...
...political instincts -not only in the tactical but in the philosophical sense. He is genuinely moved by the plight of society's underdogs and is never more eloquent or compelling than when he talks about their problems. Lately his instincts have failed him, as when he granted the Playboy interview...
...only political reference of the evening was to Jimmy Carter's recent revelations in "Playboy" magazine. Carter said in an interview he had committed adultery in his heart. "Why had Carter given his first recorded comments about sex to a magazine that philosophically and probably technically excluded women?" Kosinski asked...