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...level, the speech involved an enormous risk. Dole ended by telling voters that a campaign is not just a contest of candidates, "it is a mirror held up to America." It was a nervy image to use after so many months in which both Clinton and Dole crisscrossed the country trying to figure out what voters wanted and giving it to them. In his defining moment Dole tried something more daring: he said he would rather make us good than make us happy. Rather than telling voters, "I'm just like you," Dole was asking, "Are you like...
...would be the hardest of hard sells were it not for the fact that Dole was pandering at the same time. He wrote his own indictment into the text: "For too long we have had a leadership that has been unwilling to risk the truth, to speak without calculation, to sacrifice itself." And while he may have preached a sermon on Thursday, his aides had already left the church; they're busy scheduling a Dole-Kemp bandwagon that will take the tax-cut promise to every battleground state in the next three weeks, backed by a 20-state advertising blitz...
...Dole has a choice. For the rest of the race he must decide what he is going to ask of Americans and what he is going to give them. The test of his courage will be whether Thursday night's lesson represents the first time he told the voters who he really is and where he dreams of taking them--or the last. --With reporting by James Carney and Karen Tumulty/San Diego
...Dole's acceptance speech was big--stern, daring, even at moments Churchillian--but it was marked most by a kind of interrupted eloquence. The speech betrayed the weight of a few too many hands. Even in its strongest, most poetic passages there seemed to be something missing. When Dole stirringly pointed to the exits in the convention hall and declared the Republicans the party of Lincoln, he invited any bigoted delegates to leave, "as I stand here and hold this ground." But the way the section was constructed, it seemed as if he were telling the party it was bigoted...
...that it ignored many of the time-honored conventions of political oratory, and did so in a way that asked a lot of the audience--especially the people in the hall. Half the delegates had been to dinner, had had a few drinks and were ready to rock. But Dole gave them little to play with. He didn't offer much humor, didn't inspire a chant, didn't ask them to hoot 'n' holler...