Word: steve
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WHEN STEVE FORBES GINGERLY STEPPED ABOARD HIS rented campaign bus in Council Bluffs, Iowa, one morning last week, a photographer yelled for him to stick his head out a side window and wave. Forbes, who wouldn't know a photo op even in a hail of popping flashbulbs, nudged his head out like a turtle afraid to emerge from its shell. He smiled bashfully, and a local reporter called out, "When was the last time you rode a bus?" Forbes grimaced, pulled his head back in and muttered, "I've ridden buses all my life...
...Forbes doesn't seem to notice. When the bus halts outside Atlantic, Iowa, to let an endless freight train snake past, Forbes looks not at the parade of colorful boxcars but only at his watch. The atmosphere inside is more like a hushed corporate boardroom than a vehicle for Steve's Excellent Adventure. Muted conversation between the few staffers--no music, no mess, no jokes. Journalists are loaded into a small room at the back and then ushered quietly into the main cabin for interviews...
Dole is enjoying lowered expectations for another reason. As voters warm to Forbes because he's an outsider, insiders hate him all the more. "If Steve were one of us in the larger sense and someone we could plausibly see as President, then we'd surely declare him the winner if Dole is kept below that 37% he got in Iowa in '88," says Roger Stone. "That's right," says Ed Rollins. "It'd all be different if Forbes were a real person...
...wish I didn't keep making a connection between people who believe in a flat tax and people who believe in a flat earth. The vision I can't seem to get out of my head has Steve Forbes as both Ferdinand and Isabella, smiling his dorky smile under two different powdered wigs while economists from the Brookings Institution demonstrate with the same apple Columbus used that there would be a shortfall in federal revenues of $186 billion a year...
...Republican assumption last year that, for purposes of a $500-a-child tax credit, anyone who makes up to $200,000 a year is middle class. If practically everyone is the same class, we kept thinking, who is left for us to make war on? Now we know. Steve Forbes. The man is stinking rich...