Essay Archive - How Dole Could Have Used The Issues To His Advantage
How Dole Could Have Used The Issues To His Advantage
In a more or less conservative country, the more or less conservative
candidate, Bob Dole, should have been a lock for the presidency; the only
problem was President Clinton. Clinton had moved rightward positioning himself
between Newt Gingrich's zealous revolutionaries on the right and liberal
democratic barons on the left. Clinton's speeches started sounding like a
Republican was giving them. Bob Dole had followed the Nixon ideology of going
"starboard" in the primaries and comin....
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