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...final strategy sessions that when New Hampshire veterans like Judd Gregg and Tom Rath urged Bush to slap McCain around a little, cut a negative ad comparing McCain to Clinton and slot it into the weekend rotation, they ran into a wall. Like his dad fending off Bob Dole in 1988, "W" was resistant, but unlike his dad, he wouldn't be budged. One reason: "W" believed he was gaining strength and didn't feel the need to get nasty. "It was a principal problem," said a big fund raiser, using the antiseptic, military language of the White House...
...South Carolina also has an open primary: Democrats and independents can vote too, and Bush's newly starched message may not work well on the Myrtle Beach transplants and Charleston sophisticates. Hours after McCain held his political rave of bright-eyed college converts, Bush was appearing at Bob Jones University--a school famous for banning interracial dating--where he told the students, whose attendance was required, that he was a conservative. He said it six times in less than a minute. When he needed a heavyweight to testify to his readiness to be President, he turned to Dan Quayle...
Hughes argued that they needed to hijack McCain's message for themselves. "Governor Bush is a reformer," she said. "I don't think we've articulated that very well." The South Carolina team--which includes Lieutenant Governor Bob Peeler, former Governor David Beasley and top G.O.P. operative Warren Tompkins--was less concerned about redefining Bush as a reformer than about turning McCain into a liberal or, as one of them put it, "worse than a Democrat." "McCain's not an outsider," said one. "He's an insider. When I hear this populist stuff, it makes me wanna throw...
True, it's not Johnny Cash or Bob Dylan, but it at least deserves to give Shania Twain a run for her money. On Getting There, there's a version of "Jersey Girl" by Tom Waits, a musician who has managed to forge an acting career with an ounce of grace; perhaps some day we can play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with musicians rather than just actors...
...night, as guest speakers in Bermuda, Bob and I debated and even attacked each other for two hours, then went to dinner and took a long walk on the beach. We talked about life, the two-party system, the future of America--and forged a bond that transcended partisanship. Bob had talent, humor and a good heart. He threw his body and mind into winning. He fought every round to the bell. He believed the country needed the people he was trying to elect. For five years, he and I parried on the Today show. Although we disagreed sharply...