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...would become depressed, paranoid, surly and, one suspects, escapist." Morris neutralizes that side of Clinton--and makes this presidency possible--by playing the game so well that Clinton can almost forget he is playing it. So Clinton can go to a rally where voters scolded him for calling Bob Dole a quitter when he left the Senate, then berate Morris for making the TV spot that called Dole that--even though it was Clinton who approved it. "Dick always worked the dark side," says Rudy Moore, a Clinton aide in Arkansas, "so Bill could move toward the light...
...usual m.o. was to swoop in to seduce the candidate, caroming among five different campaigns, calling from a pay phone and needing the big guy now. "He's like a cult leader," says Stuart Stevens, a Dole media consultant who once worked with Morris. "The client has to get in there, drink the Kool-Aid and look him in the eye, get the whole mystical connection going...
Last summer Dole media consultant Stuart Stevens sat next to Morris on a shuttle flight to New York. "He detailed his involvement with Clinton," says Stevens, who still respects Morris' skills. "He said he 'ran' the Gennifer Flowers response in New Hampshire, polled for Clinton in 1992 and advised him in the fall of '94. Then he said, 'But I never hurt any client we worked for, and I never hurt the Republican Party.' I said, 'Dick, you just told me you helped elect Clinton. I don't think that helped the Republicans much.' He thought about it and said...
...mood as drastically as Clinton did at the start of his term, the once scorned President has generally had a double-digit lead in the polls. He has adopted so many traditional Republican themes that the g.o.p. has nothing much to campaign on except character and taxes. And Bob Dole's tax plan gives Clinton a chance, rare for a Democrat, to run as a fiscal conservative virtuously resisting the seductive appeal of tax cuts that might make the budget deficit skyrocket anew...
Still, the questions nag even at voters reluctantly ready to opt for Clinton on Nov. 5: Who is it that they will be casting their ballots for? The government-must-do-more Democrat elected four years ago? Or the President Bob Dole has taunted as trying "to be a good Republican" in order to win re-election? Or will a second term reveal some yet-unseen Clinton, entering the first four-year period of his adult life in which he does not have to worry about the next election and free at last to do...what...