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...Gingrich boomlet, it's that it will raise the Excitement Question: Can Dole generate the electricity needed to motivate masses of voters who are weary of Bill Clinton but may be reluctant to elect a 73-year-old President? One idea floating around the Dole camp is to place Colin Powell on the ticket. Another is to offer Powell, who may be unwilling to settle for the No. 2 job, both the vice presidency and the post of Secretary of State. But that will do little to fend off other G.O.P. hopefuls. Late last week popular Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson...
This is bad news for Colin Powell. He remains an enormously attractive public figure, but his ideological opacity is no longer a political asset. The source of his political attraction is that he represents a kind of respectable Perotism, a national hero without fixed-without known!-ideological convictions who is out to heal and steward the country. But this above-it-all stance is out of place at a time when a genuine reform program is on the table and a genuine resistance has been mounted...
...House bank scandal and congressional pay raise colored the election. In '96 the Contract and budget balancing will dominate. Such is the fallout of the transforming election of '94. The biggest casualty of this transformation is Colin Powell. The biggest beneficiary is the man who lost a Congress but found a role: Bill Clinton, leader of the opposition...
...successors will get tired of us and throw us a sop. That would be nice. Did we mention that we're going to poster at Commencement, too? Maybe we can get balloons with House shields on them and scare Vaclev Havel away. The pink balloons really seemed to disconcert Colin Powell...
...Commencement speaker invited were to have made any of the statements cited above, there would obviously be numerous protests, as there were for General Colin L. Powell. McGuire's case is unique, however, since it is not he who was chosen but his address. He is also speaking for a mere five minutes in a language most of the audience will not understand, so it is clearly an issue which deserves only a small amount of time and attention. It has been observed before, however, that a speaker is held accountable not merely for what he is speaking...