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...President was a phony who couldn't even figure out what to wear--remember earth tones? He was a liar, an exaggerator--remember how he invented the Internet? He was "uncomfortable in his skin." The anti-Kerry campaign will be a little bit of both, but the real emotional traction will involve character more than ideology. Oh, Kerry will be called a Massachusetts liberal; assorted Kerry votes and sound bites will be summoned to prove that he is a spendthrift pacifist. But "liberal" is an ancient epithet whose power has waned in recent years, and Kerry's votes to limit...
When George W. Bush was running for President four years ago, stories raising questions about his Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard never got much traction. In the Republican primaries, John McCain forbid his staff to exploit the fact that while their guy was being beaten senseless in the Hanoi Hilton, Bush was safe at home, protecting Houston from foreign attack. Al Gore steered clear too. It was not until a week before Election Day in November 2000 that Gore surrogates accused Bush of having gone AWOL--absent without leave--for an entire year while...
...being all about optimism. He is sunshine all year round, unchanged in the vision of hope and help he lays out for voters. The least known and least experienced one in the field was also the only one to pick a plan and not blink when Dean was getting traction, the only one not to get caught slicing someone else's tires. For months his vision of two Americas made whole and fair again felt a little mushy and out of step with these tumultuous times. But by the last days, the Iowa race had turned so ugly that...
...Clark] is finding his voice as a candidate. He is sharpening his responses. What you saw tonight is a better and improved Wesley Clark who is gaining some traction,” said Gergen, who served as an advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton...
...pulling the bandwagon from persuasion against abortion to outright prohibition may prove difficult. On an overwhelmingly liberal campus, any socially conservative movement needs to tack toward the center to gain traction. And by separating the notion of choice from support for abortion, HRL has at least temporarily beaten the pro-choice movement at its own game. However, by removing choice from politically contested territory and accepting it as common ground, HRL may have trouble transforming the personally anti-abortion coalition they hope to form into a political anti-choice movement. It’s a nice battle...