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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (4275)	11/1/2000 9:57:23 PM
From: Frank Griffin	Respond to of 10042

ONE PROMISE KEPT: GORE CAMPAIGN ENDS HARSHLY NEGATIVE As the 2000 election nears, the Gore Campaign becomes increasingly bitter, negative and personal. The one promise they seem willing to keep is the one made in the March 13 issue of U.S. News and World Report, in which a Gore adviser said their campaign would be “brutal, incredibly negative, nasty, dirty, slimy, sleazy, and one of the worst in history.” Trailing in the polls and forced to spend time and money in traditionally Democratic states like West Virginia, Wisconsin, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Arkansas and even Gore’s home state of Tennessee, the Gore Campaign endorses incendiary TV ads and untrue stealth attack phone calls designed to lower voter turn-out. Unable to win on issues, they’ve reverted to personal attacks against Governor Bush. Their view of the world is evident not only in their big-government policy approaches, but in their belief that they are intellectually superior to those who disagree with them or live outside Washington, D.C. Unlike Vice President Gore, George W. Bush: trusts families to decide how to best spend their hard-earned dollars, trusts parents with greater control over the education of their children, trusts seniors with more options for their health care, and trusts workers to direct a portion of their payroll taxes into personal retirement accounts. Governor Bush is ending this campaign as he began it, with a positive agenda for America that focuses on five important priorities: 1. Improving Public Education. 2. Saving and Strengthening Social Security. 3. Modernizing Medicare, including a Prescription Drug Benefit. 4. Providing Tax Relief for Families. 5. Restoring Military Readiness and Morale. The Gore Campaign has announced three different closing themes for this election year-all of them negative. The campaign is consistent with Gore’s statement that if you going to run for president, “you’re going to rip the lungs out of anybody else who’s in the race, and you’re going to do it right” (The Tennessean, 7/19/91). It’s little wonder his tactics were described by former Senator Bill Bradley as "low-level, bottom-feeding politics" (San Francisco Chronicle, 2/15/00). The American people are tired of the negative attacks and bitter partisanship in Washington. Governor Bush is a unifying leader with a proven record of building consensus and reaching across party lines to get things done. His experience as chief executive of our second largest state is markedly different from serving in a legislature or as a number two. He has a straight-forward message as the election nears: “Bringing America Together.” Anyone who campaigns this way would govern this way. A Gore presidency would be a continuation of the same bitter partisanship and harsh rhetoric. The Gore Campaign has boasted in the past of being a slaughterhouse" full of "killers" (New York Times, 7/29/00) and promised "the election campaign is going to be brutal, incredibly negative, nasty, dirty, slimy, sleazy, and one of the worst in history" (U.S. News and World Report, 3/13/00).