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...many ways, Kemp was the victim of a passive-aggressive behavior characteristic of a divided and sour G.O.P.: Dole and his top aides won't say what they want, then get angry when they don't get it. Republicans get angry at Dole and take it out on Kemp. "A lot of Republicans had already decided this campaign was going down, but at least felt good that we had a strong candidate for 2000," says Ed Rollins, who managed Kemp's 1988 effort. "You'd hear, 'If only we had Jack at the top of the ticket...
...dysfunction that currently prevails inside the Dole campaign explains why, within hours of the debate, the finger pointing was well under way. Dole's campaign manager, Scott Reed, who once served as a top Kemp aide, put out the word that he was so disappointed with Kemp's lack of fight that he refused to speak with his former boss after the debate. He was particularly upset that Kemp failed to use several scripted zingers. For instance, at some point when Gore cited arcana from Kemp's record, Kemp was supposed to ask, "Say, Al, did you get that...
...their part, top Kemp advisers insisted to TIME that neither Reed nor any other campaign official had asked Kemp to attack Clinton's character. Dole himself had sent the signal that the tactic might backfire, they said. "Our surveys show," Dole told ABC, "that a sure way to lose the women is to do the tough stuff...
...problem is that Dole can't seem to decide how to take Clinton on. "I hear a lot of contrary advice from men and women along the rope lines,'' he conceded last week. One of those women, Carol Higgins of Palos Park, Illinois, pleaded with Dole: "When are you going to put the boxing gloves on" and give President Clinton "what he deserves?" Dole giggled as his fans clapped and whooped...
...erase his public image as a growling hatchet man and put on display for the history books the kind of senatorial courtesy he has been known for in his 35 years on Capitol Hill. Asked by Koppel whether he'd rather "lose as a gentleman or win rough," Dole replied, "Well, I'd like to win, but there are certain limits. I can't see myself getting into the mud here in the last three weeks...Whatever happens, I want to be at peace with myself when it's over." But late Friday campaign co-chairman Bennett...