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...asked that question during his unsuccessful Congressional campaign against Heckler in 1980. Heckler had never dreamed those funding votes would come back to besmirch her pro-life image. "McCarthy forced Heckler in a role," Pierce says, "where people would look at her and say she's at best a wimp and at worst a liar" Pierce calls McCarthy "the great untold story of the Margaret Heckler Barney Frank race." By forcing Heckler to defend both sides of the fence she was straddling on the abortion issue, McCarthy made Heckler look like a hypocrite and watched her formerly automatic constituencies fade...
...speak at the Republican Club's officer elections, explained that he just kept "attacking and attacking." "I was going to tell 'em like I really thought it was." Instead of using the polite language of the House of Representatives, he called Sen. Charles H. Percy (R-III.) "a wimp...
...Republication incumbent James "Big Jim" Thompson, in the wake of a glaring gaffe by Democratic challenger Adlai E. Stevenson III. Addressing reporters after a debate with Thompson in September. Stevenson complained that the incumbent "is saying me tough guy. as if to simply I'm some kind of wimp." The local press latched on to the remark as indicative of Stevenson's aloofly intellectual bearing, and a series of "wimp jokes" ensued. ("What does a wimp's read on vacation? Adlai Stevenson's economic plan." What's a wimp's favorite drink? Perrier Light.") Thompson--whose populistic slogan is "Tough...
...Reagan. Like his famous father before him, the Illinois Democrat lacks a personal touch. He has compiled his economic program for Illinois in a 300-page redevelopment pamphlet, yet on the stump he has come across as brainy and out of touch. His defensive response to a flurry of wimp jokes--he launched an ad campaign stressing that he had volunteered for the Marines during the Korean War--only accelerated his electoral decline. So did his outlandish last-ditch salvos at Thompson, like equating the incumbent with the Ayatollah Khomeini several weeks...
PERISH THE THOUGHT. Illinois, renowned for its unsmiling rough-and-tumble political campaigns, has been worth a few laughs this election season. Out of the blue, Democratic Gubernatorial Challenger Adlai E. Stevenson III, 52, has publicly denied being a "wimp," though no one, not even Republican Incumbent "Big Jim" Thompson, 46, ever accused him of being one. At the same time, Thompson, seeking an unprecedented third term, was hurt early on by Illinois' faltering farm and industrial economy, his overly ardent support of Reagan, and revelations that he had accepted valuable gifts from constituents and people doing business with...