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'.QhJneaty ...... ~ ';J • were·absoJute- up with a guarantee. "I wiil· not · · Iy f~. ,,;~· i. • : •: ' run· for'· re-election if I don't get 1 1 (the Oranim, t he two-term'''Texas that job done." · ·. . ... • "Ah will senator, ·and BuchanaQ, the foi:- Dole also promises a balanced . ' s~hes :the v{Iiole hawg." i: , mer politicaJ.'commentiitqr; often ·budget, but his point · lacks the ' . ··' ' .. ~~ : No little strips of·bacon for tho~ · deliver the ideolpgical messag~ of same edge. .. · · '.i ~y ·st~VIiM~ . · :candidateS. Their speeches are full .. taking !lo pri~o iiers. F.o\ ~xample : "We are going to get a balanced . '. Poll!)c81 Corre~erii . , of. "red. Il)~at," the tough, uncom ~ ••I w11l bqlld· a ·secunty fence, budget," he said in Ames. "We are .. :promising,· government-.bashing . and ,we will seal the border of this going to make a lot of tough 0 ~·- They CallitTe'9 meat. ' .sound· bites that many conserva- country cold, a·nd we will stop 'the · choices." · ·i ~Til lay off one-third qf the bureau :tives love to hear. · said ·It .made the st~~ : ~ ·om~la- . ter or.vague' at the podium. illegal immigration in its tracks if Dole, who· recalls when "prag- ~ crats ...And when I start to cut, I start at ' And then there was Sen. Bob . cent.· . . -To Richard Vatz, a rhetoric pro- r ·m elected/' Buchanan 'recently matist" was a compliment, ex- ''the top." · . · ' · : Dole at Ross Perot's. gathering in . Then there's Dole's-· owri 'expo- · fe~sor: at Towson ·State University intbned in Dallas. "A country that pressed sarcasm in an interview Ttie·1crowd cheer.~~ Morry Taylor's :Dallas. · sure~ 'Keene estitriated' th.at-Dole· in Baltimore, _Dole simply is not a. loses control of its borders isn't re- with The New York 'rimes about prescription for cutting goveinment, just i "Yes, the federal government is has· gived 15,000.speeches in the .. charismatic speaker. . ally a country anymore." ,· the highly charged pitches of his lis it'had when another GOP presidential :big, but the federal · government last do~en years. · . "He really can't move the masses And a line Granim uses at every opponents. Se.11.'Bob Dole ' ·. lioJ?eful, Pat BuCQaJ1an, spoke in Dallas •does a Jot .of good things ... ," he "Afte·r a while, you just don't get to vote, a rid that is going' to be one opportunity gets regular applause. "You can be tough as, nails when ... lndianap· o/is, Chicago ;,;;; ·,'~eek
' Jastmonth. · . :said. "We need to rein·in the-feder- up for 'them; particularly beCause · of· his major problems'in 1996." He used it last year in pledging to you make speeches," he'Said. "I've 1,1" \ .. , . "So what'I want to say today to all the ' ~government to. make it smaller of the 15,000," he said; "14;500 of · , So the crowds chant " Go, Pat, block President Clinton's health- heard a lot of good speeches:" · glo~alisis up· there in Tokyo · ~nd New -and more user-frien~ly, and all the them were all the same." . · Go/' or they walk away .savoring · ·care plan: " Over my c'dl.. .AnEn uou o oLE UPSET CI::OHCE uusH IN THE 1988 the real voting draws nearer, th e fr on t runne r invariably los : . "Cicj:ro he ain't,". joked Da~id Iowa caucuses, the Vice President"s troops con· es some market share, and the electorate expresses its dissat· ~n,e, president of .the American , trived a desperation strategy to provoke Dole to isfaction with th e fi eld. And then the fron t runner captmcs ;ljonservative Union ~nd an oeca anger. "Make him blow, revive his 'hatchet man· the prize anyway, as the c.o.P.'s leaders have do ne eve r since ~ional Dole advi5er,'_l'eferring t9 the 1 image, make him seem too meanspirited to be President," the party began holding primaries almost 50 yea rs ago. .l amous Roman oratqr. - ·•. recalls a top Bush aide who is now advising Dole. 'That was It's true that Gramm, who at this point is best described : " He's not really giving PeoPle · · the goal, and it worked." Every whiff of as a struggling candidate with lots of 1· .What they expect from a presiden scandal, every scurrilous charge, every money, can ca use his opponents fi ts. .:lial candidate, which is a sense of distortion of the Senator's record was While Dole is often too sardonic for his i ~ he world -he wants. to create ·imd lobbed at Dole with fury. The cumula· own good, Gramm can be truly mean .' ~>~H here he V(ants to lead them if he · tive effect was decisive. After Bush won so anything is possible fro m him , and ·· ~ s president." · · · the New Hampshire primary, Dole an his sizabl e bankroll means he co uld '·• Part of it is Dole wanting to play grily told Bush to "stop lying about my stay in the hunt till the end . But the .: t safe with his lead. tiart of it is his record" and was instantly toast. story to watch right now is Dole's pusi · : ~ ongtime job as comprom~r back You can see the same tactics at tioning and demea nor. Earlier th is I(Jn Capitol Hill. Part· of if is· tlial play today. Every one of Dole's 1996 year, in an attempt to win the backing . .. ' 0 0 . • bo- c .o.l'. opponents_is ~ping at the far-right acti vists, Dole abandoned . ~ nee. . · . runner with increasing ferocity, espe some moderate views on such hot-but· 1,. ·And part of it may be his speech cially Phil Gramm, the Texas Senator ton issues as gun control and affirma· ~ riters, some complain. . who staged a surprising tie at the tive action. II is ri va ls screamed "flip· :"' Campaign insiders reportedly Aug. 19 Iowa straw poll most everyone flop," but his lead held stead y. Since ~ave, blamed Ma.ri Ma5eng Will, expected Dole to win handily. Of then, with an eye on a general election :'-?ole's ~ommunicati<;ms 'ad-..:iset, for course the Iowa ballot was phony; any· campaign against Bill Clinton, Dole !the tep1d tal.k She dtd, not respond one who bought a ticket could vote, has stood where he's rea ll y always 'J o an interview request · '· · even non-Iowans, and some confessed been-in the conservative mainstream. t'• . Dole's speeches will be under to having voted more than once. It was His advisers keep wonderin g · ~rutiny again this week as the Sen still a test of organizational strength, about tacking ri t:htward- and it's their ·!Jlte majority leader' heads first to but it was only the first part of a two· job to consider eve•)' continge ncy-but l:jlndianap6lis ·and then Chicago for pronged strategy: rough Dole up and Dole has res ist ed such thoughts so far. As he prepared to speak at a National . ~ajor addresses. . · .. · , then cause him to lash out. So every· ·.• In Indianapolis Monday, pole where Dole went last week-from Guard conventi on last Wednesday, some of his aides sugges.tcd that Dole ~ ill join t}le conservative attac){ .on Arizona to South Carolina to Georgia, revive hi s call to make English Ameri· :J!ational history standards. He to Mississippi and Florida-Gramm ca's "official language," a long-standing t'o encourage to dis nipped at his heels. In unsolicited call 'i ..V an~s teache~ Dole position that ranks about mi dway , l:uss both the ·countr.y.'s -achieve- ins to radio shows and newspapers on the c.o.P. right-wing's wi sh li st. No, 2Uents as well ,as its.mistakes. . ' along Dole's route, Gramm touted his showing and urged reporters to taunt the candidate told his advisers, that • iPHe rie~t · day ih Ghicag<>;-he...... ·-- . would be "inappropriate" for an aud i· ~lans . to · endQJ'SC elements of~ flat ' ' Dole about Iowa. They did, but Dole didn't take the bait. "Iowa wasn't my ence concerned with military matters. ttax. Both appeals should please·so- Instead Dole reiterated his csse'lltiall y l_ial conservatives, who were partie~ personal stumble," Dole told me last week. "My organization should have centrist lhcmcs. as he did all across th e ~Jiarly happy with Dole's Holly- South last week. Dole kept saying he ...,ood speech in May that blasted done better. We should have won. But my stumble-and it could do me in, I wants to "rein in government and Snovies and records. for corrupting return power to the people." but · he 9\merica's children. . .. know-will only come if I lose my cool. I haven't yet, and I won't." also kept saying "gove rnment does a • A rece.nt spate of bad· news, be- Where does this leave the !996 lot of good things" and that votcr!f . tin. Ding with the ~~ato:'s poorer c.o.P. race? Dole retains a command should look around them and see those ihan-expected showmg in an Aug. 1 ;· "Dole knows what he stands ing lead in the polls, but he's slipping a whom govemment programs have 2 9 Iowa straw poll, sent the eam · *>r," said Steffen Schmidt, an Iowa bit. In the latest TJMf)CNN poll, conducted after the Iowa helped. "I don't want to scare people," Dole says, "a nd I ·Jiaign into a self-examination Jtate Universi_ty political 5cientist. nonsense, Dole's share of the vote among likely Republican· won't take them over the edge. We've got to downsize, but ltode. 'The .old question bubbled *'But he doesn!t think that will get primary voters feU seven points, to 35%. But his two closest I'm not one who'd take a wrecking ball to govemment." t P: Does Dote have a· message that 1 l im actiVi.st Rep,ublicans ' rivals feU too-Gramm to 9% and Pat Buchanan to 8%. The That's not red meat for the right, and it might ca use Dol e el(cites voters? · . · · th~ m~re will p1ck a p_restdent. : · big winner was "not sure," up nine points to 25%, which some trouble on the road to the nomination. But it refl ects Observers inside and outside the t'h~ • As a result, he has attempted to may be why Newt Gingrich is again musing about running the majority view and improves his ultimate prospects. ampaign cite different causes for •I hift to the right'in a moVe that left · for President. The Iowa results, the Speaker said last week, "Look," says Dole, "first, it's what 1 beli eve. And second, get· . · · kep~ble_mo run sounding unconvincing and reveal a "remarkably open race." ting the party nod is nice, but it doesn't mean much if in the IWlbeliewble, Sclunjdt said: "He is It's wise, however, to remember Republican history. A5 end you don't get to live in the big house." • ewt Gin~ch." . : Keene bla~ed Dole's. heavy Sen- 34 TIME, SEPTEMilEH 4, 1995 or~o~d for a reeent lack :f . • "When he gets preoccupied. e ge is off and he §ives peop a· lgislative briefing, Keene said. ~Theq they'go away thinkiuft• 'I lould've gotten that anywhere: " • The senator's big lead ia nation~ II pblls didn't hclp.-either, Keene ·•·