Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McBride contends, the Republican National Committee spent $14 million on TV ads to support the Dole campaign. Believing these expenditures do not fall into the category of "party building," McBride says the 1996 election provides the most massive violations of the campaign finance laws since the Watergate scandal. Terence Nelan
...harsher turn in Dole's campaign style as he is seen to be running out of time to make a dent in Clinton's support. Dole said he was ready to "go back at it" with Clinton, and was willing to mention the Whitewater investigation and the FBI files scandal. His remarks prompted Clinton deputy campaign manager Ann Lewis to say, "I guess this means the era of civility lasted a day and a half." Meanwhile, more bad news descended on the Dole camp with staunch Republican Pat Robertson beginning to sound like a partisan Democrat. Last month he told...
With only about a month until we once again must choose the lesser of two evils to govern us, the only scenarios for a Dole victory involve a massive calamity to the Clinton campaign; but the slick Comeback Kid from Hope seems almost immune to scandal. To date, the most exciting moment in Dole's campaign has been Dole's ungainly tumble off a stage two weeks ago. Dole has now retired to a Florida condo to rest and strategize, but he would be better off perusing the classifieds instead. That Leader of the Free World job that...
Former Florida Treasurer Tom Gallagher's political career began in the middle of the Watergate scandal...
...parochial institutions. Whether those notions could have moved the dial will never be known, for as quickly as he raised them, Dole dropped them. He said Clinton had no core, and when that didn't work, he labeled him an old-fashioned liberal, and that didn't work either. Scandal was left, so Dole tried that, eventually lighting on foreign contributions as the most recent example of Clinton's lack of a moral compass. But most voters, the polls found, had long since concluded that while inherently "untrustworthy," the President was nevertheless trustworthy enough for the White House...