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Genius. a lot of his politics was instinctive. a little louder! bush, george bush, a little louder! let s go. tacks on the road was one of lee atwater s sayings, how to diminish the other side. what can we do to three some tacks in the road in the way of the dole bus and cause some confusion. there were a number of positions that we found in which bob dole appeared to be on both sides of an issue. i said, well, maybe we refer to him as senator straddle. george bush and bob dole on leadership. atwater falls on the line like a ravenous wolf. the team make an attack ad accusing dole of sitting on the fence over tacks. we had a meeting with myself, lee atwater, the vice president, mrs. bush. bush was not totally convinced of the merits of the straddle ....
Ad. bush was a gentleman. he didn t call someone names. he thought very well of senator dole. i think lee and others ganged up on bush. the vice president sort of looked over at barbara and saw she wasn t objecting anymore and he agreed to have the ad run. bush says he won t raise taxes, period. dole straddles. he s been on both sides. that s why he s becoming known as senator straddle. george bush, presidential leadership. reports of my death were greatly exaggerated. george bush takes new hampshire with close to a ten-point lead. dole just got atwatered. i think that bush knew that lee gave him something that he didn t have on his own. ....
so was i. i remember it well. i was standing right there when tom brokaw asked you if you had anything to say to vice president bush. you ll see the man that you beat tonight, that s senator bob dole who is standing by in his headquarters. senator dole, is there anything you would like to say to the vice president? stop lying about my record. i said stop lying about my record because they had an ad called senator straddle which showed me raising taxes. you know, i was the leader for ronald reagan. and later for george bush. so i wasn t setting the policy. i was trying to support the president. would you have any trouble, you don t have any trouble obviously supporting jeb bush despite your past differences with his dad. oh, no. we re i have great respect for his dad, talk to him now and then, he s a wonderful guy. ....
Senat senator straddle and turning those numbers around. and then we forget this. a lot of folks forget it. in 2000, george w. bush was clobbered in new hampshire by john mccain and came back strong in south carolina. so the bush story is not one of automatic coronation. they do have to work hard for it. they have to campaign hard for it. and i think the big question everyone seems to have is does governor bush have that particular gene? that seems to be the point. you re going to have models and your father and john kerry. this is a different candidate than any of those three. yeah. governor bush has been out there telling us to write his come back story. he s never had a contested ....
He fought back. what s going on in the bush world i m not saying this is true of the two prts but close intimates are saying can jeb do that. like james baker and bush in 41 and car rover and bush in 43, can you fight back. and there are real doubts in bush world based oven what they ve seen so far. that jeb has the same capacity as his foreand brother were and is just as much counted out. you asked him that. he said he eats nails for breakfast? he eats nails before he eats breakfast. we th is bush being crowned without drama. neither bush became president without going negative, whether it was senator straddle in 1988 or the dukakis campaign or as mark says, south carolina. yeah. beating the king. they were tough and they were ....