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...needed to turn the Republican race into a blood sport. Beginning in Washington with an artful response to the taunts of his principal rival, Bob Dole, and climaxing with a brawling, take-me-on-if-you-dare performance at a Des Moines debate, Bush appeared to have whipped his wimp image. But the Vice President may need all the moxie he can muster, since he suddenly found himself bushwhacked over an issue he hoped had been forgotten: his role in the Iran-contra scandal. The fusillade of what-did-he-really-know charges came mainly from the press...
NATION: Is this a wimp? George Bush brawls with critics at an Iowa debate...
...name. "Pierre, let me help you on some of this," he said. "I think it's a nutty idea to fool around with the Social Security system." Moments later, Bush was holding his own in a finger-pointing exchange with Alexander Haig. Even when Haig blurted out the word wimp, Bush managed to convey that he was, in fact, in charge here...
Despite the university's decision to cancel bidding, MIT Provost John Deutch insists that MIT was not pressured into the decision. "The image that the federal government is a bully and that MIT is a wimp is just not true. We alone made a judgement on the issue," Deutch said. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA...
...moment, this has led to a contest of backgrounds and biographies. Bush, for example, is fond of claiming, "I've got the most unique resume of any candidate in either party," one of his ways of trying to overcome the wimp issue and show he has grit. In addition, most members of the class of '88 are playing that time-honored game (pioneered by William Henry Harrison in 1840) of searching for the log cabin that can convey their just-folks humble heritage. The self-made rhetoric all blurs together as Dukakis talks of his immigrant parents, Dole recalls...