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...writing a book, making carefully chosen speaking engagements and keeping his profile low. Top G.O.P. operatives fantasize out loud about a Powell run, knowing the former general would steal votes from Clinton's thin base of minorities, women and trade unionists. "If Powell wanted the nomination," said a G.O.P. strategist, "he probably could get it." No one is saying that about Dan Quayle...
Brown's new campaign has been crafted by a freshly hired gun, Clint Reilly, the strategist who engineered the victory of Los Angeles Republican Mayor Richard Riordan. Reilly revamped Brown's organization and focused on targeting, among other groups, Republican women and blue-collar Reagan Democrats in recession-hit suburbs. He acknowledges that Brown, like Feinstein, is bound to face a prejudice among many male Democratic voters that "women aren't tough enough." He warns that countering Wilson's attacks effectively will require negative campaigning. Ironically, Brown proposed in February that the candidates all sign a joint "honest and clean...
Kevin Phillips, author and former Republican political theorist, sees Greenspan as "sort of the financial equivalent of an operative instead of a statesman. He may know all the players, but he has a strain of intertwined parochialisms -- Republican strategist; Ayn Rand devotee; Wall Street forecaster; writer of letters for special pleaders like Keating. It isn't the background of a great economic statesman. It's the profile of an Austro- Hungarian court figure...
Washington -- During a breakfast with reporters recently, Southern-born Clinton strategist JAMES CARVILLE warned against stereotyping Southerners as being ignorant and easy to corrupt. But later he told the gathering to beware of the President's enemies because of the people some of them are paying for damaging information. "You know," he said, "when you drag hundred-dollar bills through trailer parks, there's no telling what you'll find. I know those people ... I used to make out with some of them...
Even on Wall Street, that sounds like twisted logic to some. "The rational reasons for the sell-off ((inflation worries and interest rates)) in my mind just barely border on the rational," says Stephen Quickel, editor of U.S. Investment Report, a biweekly newsletter. Michael Metz, chief investment strategist for Oppenheimer & Co., concurs: "Financial markets have a world of their own and motivations of their...