Word: reed
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...Iowa, hauling back in line any who appear to be straying. They will call any Forbes supporters who oppose abortion, to remind them that Forbes does not oppose all abortions. Then comes the direct-mail avalanche aimed at veterans, Christians and gun enthusiasts. This will be a crucial test. Reed and other Dole aides believe they must drive Forbes back down to the low teens in the polls with tough negative ads. If the tactic works, Dole will be able to close his Iowa campaign on a positive note; if it fails, his team expects to fight mean...
...edgy and defensive, with aides speaking quietly into phones about How Could This Have Happened and loyal allies insisting loudly that the speech had been fine. Dole aides insisted that he erred in style, not substance. "We were speaking to conservative Republican primary voters," said campaign manager Scott Reed. "We admit it. We showed that we were for change, that Clinton is the obstacle and we won't compromise...
...speech itself reflected some civil strife between Dole's Senate team and his campaign crew. His Senate speechwriter had offered a draft that lauded his legislative record and was generally mild in its assaults on the enemy. This was dumped as boring by campaign manager Reed. Campaign communications director Mari Maseng Will's draft was pitched much harder right, tougher on Clinton, aimed at Iowa and New Hampshire. The Senate staffers denounced it as a "full-throated attack" that Dole himself "winced at," they say. The single line that Senate Chief of Staff Sheila Burke and Co. found most over...
Last week's State of the Union message was pieced together by Don Baer, Bruce Reed and Michael Waldman, senior aides ideologically in synch with Morris. The speech tapped into the less-from-Washington and more-from-ourselves rhetoric heard on the Republican campaign trail. Clinton declared that "the era of Big Government is over" and talked about family values, personal responsibility and neighborhood charity. "We're the ones who are pro-family, pro-community, pro-spirituality," wails G.O.P. pollster Frank Luntz, "and yet Bill Clinton is using the language and we're not." House Republicans are muttering that Clinton...
...possible that this week will turn out to have been Forbes' 15 minutes of fame. But that has not kept the rivalry between Forbes and Dole from taking on the quality of shadowboxing. Both Forbes campaign manager Bill Dal Col and Dole campaign manager Scott Reed were once Kemp staffers, and they have kept in touch over the years. Early on, Dal Col would routinely let Reed see the text of Forbes' ads before they ran, "but no more," he says. "Things have got too hot. They're crazed about the ads." Reed notes that Forbes was the first...