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...still totes around 23 percent of the vote can start to curry party favors with the Republican kingmakers. And then make an "I told you so" case for 2004 if Gore wins in November. So he was careful to keep a certain distance; he ruled out being anybody's veep and joked about being Bush's "Secretary of Reform," a position he'll now fill in the Senate, on the trail and in front of the cameras with new and improved clout from now until at least November. Meanwhile, Bush didn't have much to do except stand there...
...named JonBenet's mom as a suspect 24. Big bash 25. 1999 Frank McCourt memoir 26. Bush, to Trudeau 27. Takeoff artist 29. Williams, who withdrew from the Family Circle Cup in support of the South Carolina boycott 32. Bayh, who's on everyone's short list for the Veep slot 33. Measure of profitability: Abbr. 34. Appear 36. Place for trash 37. 2000 Masters winner 39. Car in a 1964 hit song 40. Smear 42. Third World leaders recently concluded a summit here 44. Volunteers have begun an attempt to move a three-ton stone from here to Stonehenge...
...SKIPPER FOR VEEP Barbie for President, back on the campaign trail after eight years, hits Toys "R" Us next week. Something about the doll (there are Latina and black versions) put us in mind of other political dolls. Next up: Malibu Hillary...
...Gore have sparred over which of them will better serve America's seniors in their most desperate hours. In fact, this is the issue on which Gore's been willing to go furthest to the left (he even accused Bill Bradley of giving the issue short shrift). The veep recently signed on to President Clinton's plan to devote nearly $200 billion to extending Medicare coverage to prescription drugs, and seemed to turn a blind eye to Wall Street by saying that the drug companies drastically overcharge consumers - a hint at the sort of market intervention the center-hugging Gore...
...federal budget to the point that any combination of his proposed initiatives would be impossible to fund. Bush's credibility attacks against Gore, meanwhile, focus on character, suggesting that Gore doesn't have the moral fiber to see his centrist agenda through. Bush likes to focus on the veep's campaign finance record, particularly the Buddhist temple fund-raiser, as a way of putting Gore's overall credibility in doubt. The race seems to have shifted from which candidate we can believe to which one we can doubt the least...