Word: ronning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...presumptuously grasping at the Oval Office, so he relied on Cheney's aura of authority and competence to persuade Americans that the race was finally over and Gore should give up. "A lot of you wrote stories back in July that Cheney was a dumb pick," says Ron Kaufman, a G.O.P. consultant who worked in Bush's father's White House. "He sure doesn't look like a dumb pick now, does...
...cleaned up my act by cutting out the whining and focusing on real solutions. First I homed in on a single goal: figuring out how to get great deals on flights. Then I recruited a crack panel of experts--everyone from Travelocity CEO Terrell Jones to CheapTickets vice president Ron McElfresh--to help me ferret out the best insider tricks. Finally I torture-tested their advice to see if it really flew. Here's what I learned...
...Gore adviser Ron Klain expressed disappointment at the stay, of course, and that they were "optimistic about ultimately prevailing" in Monday's hearing. David Boies assured reporters he expected prompt and fair action from the Supreme Court, and that the Bush team had "a very heavy burden" in the case. (He's even begun borrowing Baker's "rules of the game" trope.) He also mused that Dec. 12 was a rather softer deadline than the bulk of the Florida legislature was making...
...already written their appellate briefs by the time the Friday ruling came down, and the 12,000 ballots from the Seminole County case were already waiting in the evidence room at the Florida Supreme Court for the inevitable appeal that could come as soon as Monday. And Gore adviser Ron Klain refused to commit the veep to a concession, even if Gore goes...
...Tuesday, Gore sounded tired, but the fight clearly isn't out of him. The veep's lawyer/chum Ron Klain, spun Gore's mood Tuesday to NBC's "Today" as "very resolute, very strong, I thought, very inspiring.... In many ways, this most difficult moment has been his finest hour...