Word: reforms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...nest of tough boxes now, and everyone could see how they fit inside one another. He is trying to run a newly ideological campaign against a guy who's nonideological; he's complaining about being usurped by a fake who is riding a public wave of reform; he has gone negative against a candidate who seems to fear nothing but who owes his success so far to a happy willingness to confess everything. Finally, Bush is relying on the party's right wing to save him from a candidate from the radical center. If there is one state where this...
...some point the discussion turned to who could be counted on to fire which volleys. Several outside groups, including the National Right to Life Committee, Americans for Tax Reform and the tobacco lobby were mentioned. "Right to Life will do radio, ATR will do TV ads," said one of Bush's South Carolina advisers. "ATR will come down with whatever we need." No one in the meeting suggested that the campaign was or should be coordinating with these outside groups. Coordination is illegal, but it is also in the eye of the beholder, and the discussion revolved around the idea...
...closet Clinton who won in New Hampshire because the state has become a hilly suburb of Boston, Taxachusetts. That's a tough sell, since McCain has always been a staunch conservative--pro-life, pro-gun, antitax, antiregulation. But Bush argues that McCain's advocacy of campaign-finance reform and his opposition to whopping tax cuts mean he has abandoned his ideals. The argument is designed to shore up Bush's right-wing support in South Carolina, but it wasn't working so well last week, as McCain inched past Bush in the TIME/CNN poll. Yet Bush and his surrogates aren...
...smartest minds together to help work this out," he says about too many issues: William Bennett on drug policy, Lindsey Graham on health care, John Breaux on Medicare. Out of all the domestic issues that cut with voters, his campaign has offered detailed proposals only on Social Security reform, taxes and health care, and that plan was held together with Post-it notes and glue sticks. He has got away with all this because his campaign isn't about his policies; it's about his character and personality. That's why people who disagree with him say they will vote...
...more moderate than he actually is. He muses about helping the have-nots, but his policies tend to help the have-a-lots. He speaks of universal health care but offers no plan to get anywhere close. And reporters give him leeway because his reputation as a crusader for reform--someone who wants to "kick the big-money boys out of Washington"--is so disarming...