Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There was the problem that conservative Republicans never much liked or trusted the President. Among Republicans who did like him, especially those who respected his foreign policy skills, there was a risk the son would suffer by comparison. And out in the electorate at large, there were still people who remembered something they didn't like about the Bush brand, who had actually voted against it, who had the impression that the whole clan lived in a rarefied world where no one knows the price of milk and recessions don't happen. The last thing Bush wanted was to convey...
...campaign decided early on to stay away from Mom and Dad. Father and son rarely appeared together. In fact, Bush and campaign manager Karl Rove did such a splendid job of changing the locks that by the time reporters started to ask, "How is the son really different from the father?" they knew just what to say. "Well, he's more ideological, more conservative. He's just much more interested in domestic policy than his father." The big guns from Dad's White House, the Bakers and Scowcrofts, would be heard but not seen, but all their younger, less visible...
...voters tossed a Bush out of office, and they have been eight years of rampaging prosperity. Al Gore has plenty of time to argue that going back to the future would be unwise or unreal. But it is remarkable that he is having to make his case against the son of the man he and Bill Clinton exiled. "It is time for them to go," Gore chanted famously at the convention in New York in 1992. Is it already time for them to come back...
...lost on him that his namesake had become one of the hottest political properties around, that the son had in some ways surpassed the rest of the family at the game. Bush saw it for himself at W.'s final rally in Houston on his way to being re-elected with 70% of the vote. "He was the rock star--Mr. Charisma," the father observed to TIME's Hugh Sidey. "He is good, this boy of ours. He includes people. He has no sharp edges on issues. He is no ideologue, no divider. He brings people together, and he knows...
...problem now was that if he wanted to help his son get elected President, the best thing he could do was disappear for a while. There were lots of people outside Texas who didn't know whether it was the father running again or the son. An early 1998 poll revealed that 40% of the people backing Bush thought they were voting for the hero of the Gulf War. It was nice that Barbara had consistently topped the list of most popular women in the country and that the focus groups found people had warm memories of the clan--"Nice...