Sipple: Dole Wouldn't Be Good President
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Oct. 28) -- The former chief campaign strategist for Bob Dole says in Newsweek magazine that the Republican candidate would not "be a particularly good president." "There's lack of communication skills, the indecisiveness, the obsession with self-reliance," said Don Sipple, who was fired from the campaign in September. Sipple said Dole is essentially running his own campaign. "There never was a strategy," he said. The former strategist says he asked Dole what his theory of the election was. Dole replied, "Think I'll win. Could be big." Sipple said Dole is a good, decent man, but "he is not a man of this time." Sipple said he fears what the loss will do to Dole, and said he believes Dole will be bitter about it. "He thought the presidency was a reward system and he was next in line for the ring," Sipple said.
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Flow Of Newspaper Endorsements Begins
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Oct. 28) -- The nation's newspapers have begun to endorse the candidates, and while President Bill Clinton seems to be picking up very strong support on both coasts, GOP nominee Bob Dole is getting a lot of endorsements from papers in the Midwest and South. They include The Detroit News, the Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Kansas City Star, The Chattanooga Free Press, The New York Post, The Hutchinson (Kan.) News, The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss., the Cincinnati Enquirer, The Idaho Statesman in Boise, The Day of New London, Conn., the Connecticut Post of Bridgeport, the Washington Times, the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin and the New Haven Register.
Papers that have endorsed Clinton include The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, The Boston Globe, the San Francisco Examiner, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Maine Sunday Telegram, the Seattle Times, The Des Moines Register, the Honolulu Advertiser, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, the News & Record of Greensboro (N.C.), the Times of Shreveport (La.), the (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, and the Dayton Daily News.
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Perot Speaks With A New Voice
WARREN, Ohio (AllPolitics, Oct. 28) -- Though he may not have given GOP nominee Bob Dole his endorsement, Reform Party candidate Ross Perot sure is sounding a lot like him. "Is there no sense of decency left in this country?...There must not be, if you look at the polls," Perot said this weekend. "Shouldn't we have a president who is honest, loyal and trustworthy? Just because you can tap dance, juggle and chew gum doesn't mean you can do the job." Well, that last part has more of a Perot ring to it. Perot declined to drop out of the race last week after being approached by the Dole campaign, but has since stepped up the volume and frequency of his attacks on President Bill Clinton.
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Kemp To GOP: Support The Nominee
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Oct. 28) -- GOP vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp told CBS on Sunday he's disappointed that some Republicans seem to be concentrating on keeping congressional majorities in what he called Bob Dole's "moment of need." He said it's discouraging "to hear that some Republicans would run away at this moment of need for a man who has been a hero his whole career." Kemp also called on Reform Party nominee Ross Perot to drop out of the race. "Ross, I beg you," Kemp said."You should be supporting the one man who can bring about these reforms in America."
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