Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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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...
...operatives and doing events with police officers. An old magician with a telephone, he worked the long lines behind the scenes, making suggestions about what a good idea it would be to do a national Hispanic event, helping with fund raising. You could hear the President speaking through the son on foreign policy, and a close friend says he repeatedly heard the Governor make reference to the old man in conversation. "Pop said that exact same thing this morning," Bush would say in a meeting or a telephone call...
...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...
...Bush, and with your help, we'll make that all Americans." And there was that awkward night, on the eve of the crucial New Hampshire primary, when the family gathered for a rally at a tennis club and the father majestically reappeared to praise "this boy, this son of ours." The criticism that followed seared the parents and forced them from the stage...