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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ad Bush tried a couple days ago - the TV set on the counter, Gore's image, the Buddhist temple, the nonsense about inventing the Internet, an annoyingly sarcastic woman's voiceover saying, there's dumb old Al reinventing himself again (yeah, right, like we wouldn't notice) - is a lame, counterproductive effort, foolishly half-hearted and barbless...
...Bush gets viciously personal, Gore will be able to mount a devastating counterattack. Edit in your mind a quick-cut television ad showing George W. Bush groping for the names of heads of state, garbling sentences, saying "hostile" when he means "hostage" - a procession of he's-not-ready moments that would reinforce the most damaging rap against Bush (he's not smart enough) and emphasize Al Gore's strength...
...supposed to be screw-ups. (We're watching you, Marvin Bush.) Now, in a nice postmodern twist, even fictional presidential brothers are causing headaches. JOE ESTEVEZ, sibling of West Wing Oval Office sitter and lefty activist MARTIN SHEEN, recorded a very Sheen-like voice-over for a convention ad touting the decidedly right-wing Hunting and Shooting Sports Heritage Foundation. While it's not Estevez's fault that he sounds exactly like his brother, a firearms-industry representative says the hire was no accident. "Let's just say this: We really liked the voice because we thought it would...
...CANDIDATE] 3 Duke [PROS] Past experience as Ambassador to China [CONS] Well-documented history of drug use [CANDIDATE] 4 Lex Luthor [PROS] Keen understanding of world domination [CONS] Killed his own parents THE AD-MASCOT RACE...
...Bush did a smart thing earlier this week in nixing the cheap-shot ad of Gore defending Clinton's veracity - the featured clip was from the pre-Monica days, and concerned Ollie North - and what the New York Times gleefully called a "split over strategy" could just have been a candidate reining in his bulldogs. Either way, it's in keeping with the above-the-fray image that Bush has cultivated with some success in this campaign. He might want to start applying that good sense to his tax-cut sales plan...