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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (98031)	12/1/2000 10:38:05 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 769670

Can you say, "Delusions of grandeur?" Several friends mentioned that Mr. Gore's father, who died in 1998, would never have encouraged his son to end his challenge. In fact, when the Mr. Gore first ran for president in 1988, his family saw the fact that he won seven states on Super Tuesday as proof that he was on his way to the Oval Office Ñ while most of his advisers thought that he had needed to win at least eight or nine states to stay in the race. The campaign celebrated that night, at Nashville's Opryland Hotel. "Al gave a real rousing set of remarks and his dad was on the edge of the stage and I was going to help him down," remembered Arlie Schardt, Mr. Gore's campaign chairman that year. "But instead of climbing down, he put his arms way up in the air in a huge V and yelled, "Arlie, that boy is going to be president.' That was the mood that night." Mike Kopp, who worked for Mr. Gore for years in Congress as well as on that campaign, said that then, as now, the Gore family saw victory where others saw defeat. "The staff saw the writing on the wall, but the family was in it to the bitter end," Mr. Kopp said. "The family is very competitive and they, regardless of what might be staring them in the face, they don't give up. This is his family name, his father's dream and his own future, so they're not willing to give up." Mr. Kopp said that, over the years, Mr. Gore's unwillingness to listen to different points of view or to brook even the best-intentioned criticism from old friends had narrowed his circle considerably.