Word: steve
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been lower taxes, less government. And the G.O.P. primary front runners are on message. With his plaid shirts and his footwork across the early primary states, Lamar Alexander has been straining for the common touch. But for the most part his populism identifies the standard G.O.P. villain, Washington. Steve Forbes? Enough said. As for Dole, his parents were so poor that during the Depression they moved the family to the basement of their house so they could rent the main floor to an oil company manager. But his solutions for the castoffs of the new economy are pretty much...
...unable to be Pat Buchanan and unwilling to be himself. Lamar Alexander, trying to convince voters he was more than the "least worse" choice, had to roll out a refreshened agenda even if its contents, such as the abolition of food stamps, might come back to haunt him. Steve Forbes had to decide whether to admit he had been running an ugly race, cage his pit bulls and run on his strengths instead of his enemies' weaknesses. And Pat Buchanan, who reinvents Republicanism when he offers dispirited workers a vision of paradise, had to decide how much damage...
...profits from insider investment deals not available to the average American; as another slick Southern Governor who repeatedly raised taxes and now dares to run as a conservative. Alexander's communications director, Mark Merritt, retorts, "Bob Dole is desperate, and now that we're gaining, he's taken up Steve Forbes' mudslinging mantle...
...Late on a snowy Friday in February of that year, Governor John Sununu, running the Bush campaign in New Hampshire, personally delivered to WMUR-TV an ad called "Senator Straddle," which detailed Dole's flip-flops to devastating effect. Late on a snowy Friday last week, Governor Steve Merrill, a Sununu protege, personally delivered to WMUR an ad that attacked Alexander as "too liberal." The ad reminded voters that Alexander once proposed a state income tax for Tennessee, which, like taxophobic New Hampshire, does not have one. The income tax that Alexander proposed, his supporters explain, would have allowed...
...Republican candidates other than Dole are running as Talents, though most of them are only pretending. Lamar Alexander, whose official campaign persona as the angry outsider is practically see-through, is actually a Mandarin--can you imagine Buchanan ever having been president of a state university, as Alexander was? Steve Forbes is a child of the Episcopacy, having been raised in a manner modeled on the social practices of the British aristocracy in the 19th century: the family seat in the country, the character-building boarding-school education, going to work for Dad. But, having realized that...