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...fruit attack never came, but in his bid to unseat Charles Robb as the state's junior U.S. Senator, the retired Marine colonel and damp-eyed star of the Iran-contra hearings has been doing a lot of ducking and counterattacking in a campaign that has turned Virginia's political season into a freak show. The race reached new levels of notoriety last week when Nancy Reagan, during a public appearance in New York City, blasted North's veracity. "Ollie North has a great deal of trouble separating fact from fantasy. He lied to my husband...
...North's travails were met with glee at Robb headquarters, where aides were considering whether to use footage of Nancy Reagan in an ad for their candidate. Robb, after all, has been bathed in shame as well. The Democratic Party's onetime star-in-waiting has been dogged by stories about his attendance at swank parties with alleged drug users while he was Virginia's Governor and his alleged marital infidelities. While refusing to admit specific transgressions, Robb has conceded to having "let my guard down" in the past. That line, joked The Tonight Show host Jay Leno, "is just...
Indeed, the North-Robb race has proved to be a rich source of comic material. David Letterman drew up a Top 10 List of mock campaign slogans for North. No. 7 was, "A man of convictions. None of them pending." (North's three convictions in the Iran-contra case were overturned on a technicality.) And Garry Trudeau featured North as arrogant and a chronic prevaricator in his syndicated Doonesbury comic strip last week...
Despite North's embarrassments, he is in a dead heat in public polls with Robb going into the final week of the campaign. North has been effective in linking his Democratic opponent to President Clinton, whose ratings are low in Virginia. North can also thank the independent candidacy of Marshall Coleman, a Republican opposed to him who received 17% in the latest poll. Coleman has been siphoning support that would have gone to Robb...
...hard-core support, that support appears to be impregnable. They're just not paying attention to the salvos being fired at him." The other irony: the GOP lured independent Marshall Coleman into the race to stop the loose-cannon North, but Coleman appears to be siphoning more votes off Robb...