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...allowing incumbents to "roll over" their campaign war chests (and never mind that Bush had done the same thing); on whether he favored tax hikes in the past. On each occasion, Bush aides would pass out, fax and e-mail memos documenting McCain's alleged hypocrisies. And surrogates--Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson, Strom Thurmond, Lieutenant Governor Bob Peeler, Attorney General Charlie Condon and former Governors Campbell and David Beasley--were dispatched to deliver the message in harsher terms on TV and radio. Outside groups--the National Right to Life Committee, Americans for Tax Reform, the National Smokers Alliance--were counted...
Former Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, a Bush strategist, used his firm to smother the 400,000 self-described Christian conservatives in the state with negative phone calls and mailings about McCain. ("He claims he's conservative, but he's pushed for higher taxes and waffled on protecting innocent human life.") In this blitz of mail and phone calling, Bush was portrayed as far more socially conservative than he describes himself at rallies. Asked why Bush almost never brought up his pro-life position in his appearances before South Carolina voters, a top Bush adviser said, "This...
...positive TV ad comparing himself to Ronald Reagan. But McCain's morning-in-America spot was airing once for every six Bush commercials. McCain got some help from Gary Bauer, the Christian conservative candidate who folded his campaign after New Hampshire and endorsed McCain last week. Bauer is fighting Reed for supremacy among Christian conservatives, but last week he lost the battle. He wasn't popular enough to sway many votes. McCain's network of veterans tried to counter Bush's carpet bombing with a grass-roots ground campaign, but by Saturday morning, McCain knew in his bones that...
...forged some sort of alliance - based primarily on their opposition to Bush's campaign." TIME political correspondent John Dickerson, also on the road in South Carolina, sees Bauer's choice as a not-so-subtle poke at rival Christian conservatives. "There's a deep-seated tension between the Ralph Reed?Pat Robertson wing of the Christian right and the Gary Bauer wing," says Dickerson. "Bauer sees Reed and Robertson as promoting a caricature of social conservatism, and he wants to break from that." Bauer threw his weight behind McCain, Dickerson adds, in response to Reed and Robertson's attempt...
...have thus far produced 99 cases in which they're confident Rampart CRASH produced bogus convictions. L.A. County D.A. Gil Garcetti believes there could be thousands more, while Parks estimates that the cost of the ensuing lawsuits could run into the hundreds of millions. "When this initially happened," notes Reed, "the people in the Rampart neighborhood came out and supported the police. The CRASH division had gotten gang activity under control and people began to feel they had gotten their neighborhood back. But once the details of the investigation started coming to light, that support quickly ended." While nothing...