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Nation
Tuesday • March 5, 1996
Preparing for long journey ahead
□ House Speaker calls Dole the
next president.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In Republican
presidential politics, the magic number is
996 — and Bob Dole had a mere 91 dele
gates heading into Tuesday’s voting. By the
numbers, he was correct in casting the race
as “far from over.”
Yet Dole is poised for giant gains when 18
states divvy up more than 700 delegates in
the next week — 10 states on Tuesday, New
York on Thursday and seven more on next
week’s “Super Tuesday.”
In the Dole camp, there was even talk of
a “Junior Tuesday” sweep, with Georgia
the biggest question mark because of con
servative commentator Pat Buchanan’s ap
peals to social conservatives. Weekend
polling by the Dole campaign showed grow
ing leads in Florida and Texas, the two
biggest prizes next week.
As Dole begins to look like a winner, many
in the party are beginning to look ahead, to
assess the obstacles if Dole does indeed
emerge as the GOPs presumptive nominee.
“The next president” is how House Speak
er Newt Gingrich referred to Dole after vot
ing for the Senate majority leader on Mon
day — using an absentee ballot for Tues
day’s Georgia primary.
Gingrich made his sentiments public in
an effort to bring peace to a contentious
nominating battle that has jeopardized in
ternal party consensus on trade and other
economic issues and brought to the surface
the always divisive abortion debate.
In the speaker’s calculation, and he has
plenty of company in the GOP establishment
ranks, Dole is almost the nominee.
“I think it is virtually over,” said William
Kristol, the conservative strategist and maga
zine publisher. Still, never a Dole fan, Kristol
said, “I fear he may come out of this not a very
strong candidate.”
Already, Dole trails President Clinton in
national surveys, although the outlook for
Dole improves, but is hardly optimistic, in a
state-by-state electoral college analysis.
Beyond that, Dole — or
any GOP nominee besides
Steve Forbes — will be
out of money by the be
ginning of April at the
latest, while Clinton sits
on more than $25 million
in primary money avail
able to spend before the
August conventions.
Dole had hoped to have
the nomination virtually
locked up already, so he
could return to his duties
as Senate majority leader and push an elec
tion-year agenda through the GOP Congress.
Now Dole will be forced to campaign
hard through at least the end of March,
when California holds its primary. Still,
many Republicans feel it is imperative that
the GOP Congress move swiftly — to re
pair its own tarnished image and to set the
agenda for the fall campaign.
Kristol and others put welfare reform and
tax cuts atop their wish list. Legal reforms,
rollbacks in racial preference programs and
regulatory reform were mentioned by other
Republicans as a way to solidify the GOP
base and contrast the party with Clinton.
Some Dole aides also favor pushing modest
health care reform legislation.
“Give us four or five weeks after we get a
clear nominee and I think we will be able to
frame a race versus Clinton,” Gingrich said.
There are several more problems for Dole.
For starters, the biggest worry in the
Dole campaign now is Buchanan.
Since losing South Carolina to Dole,
Buchanan has been scathingly critical of Dole.
No one in the Dole camp considers Buchanan
a serious threat for the nomination, but most
believe a rapprochement is critical so that
Buchanan’s conservative delegates do not dis
rupt the San Diego convention.
Then, of course, there is Dole himself.
“If it is Dole, he is going to have to look
more comfortable, like someone who has a
commanding presence instead of a defensive
presence,” said Merle Black, an Emory Uni
versity political scientist. “He needs to look
like a president.”
On this point, should Dole emerge as the
nominee, Gingrich sounded more confident.
“Senator Dole is a much better leader
than he is a candidate and he will be a much
better president than he is a candidate,” the
speaker said. “The reverse can be said of the
man who will be his major fall opponent.”
Dole
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□ Clinton's name not
listed in indictment.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) —
Jury selection began Monday in
the fraud and conspiracy trial
of President Clinton’s Whitewa
ter partners and the man who
succeeded him as governor,
with Clinton himself subpoe
naed to testify.
In this presidential election
year, the trial could prove a liabil
ity to Clinton, though his name is
not mentioned in the indictment
against James and Susan McDou-
gal and Gov. Jim Guy Tucker.
The McDougals and Tucker
are accused of misusing nearly
$3 million borrowed from a pair
of federally backed lending
companies. They allegedly lied
to the bankers about how the
money would be used.
The McDougals have subpoe
naed Clinton, saying he can
counter claims made by David
Hale, who ran one of the lending
companies. Hale is expected to
testify for the prosecution that
Tucker and then-Gov. Clinton
pressured him to make bad loans,
including one for $300,000 to Mrs.
McDougal 10 years ago.
Bobby McDaniel, a lawyer for
McDougal, said Monday he ex
pects the president to testify in
person. Clinton’s lawyers prefer
he testify by videotape. No deci
sion has been made.
Clinton and his wife say they
were only passive investors in
Whitewater and had no irregu
lar dealings with the McDougals’
Madison Guaranty Savings &
Loan. Its collapse cost taxpayers
$65 million.
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The Natural Law Party
speaker:
Dr. John Flagelin
Election ‘96 Presidential Candidate
Wednesday, March 6, 1996
7:00 p.m. — 401 Rudder
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or Texas A&M University.
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