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Article: The Bush-Dole Clash
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 24, 1988
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If Bob Dole says one more word-even one more-about his rise from
the social depths, he should be sentenced to go bowling. That
punishment would be deliciously condign because Dole might bump into
George Bush, who recently has allowed as how he is a bowling-alley
kind of guy.
So, all of you Stanley Kowalskis, put your elbows on the Formica
top of Stella's kitchen table and imagine how George Bush feels
suffering through a rerun of this issue. In 1980 Ronald Reagan, that
horny-handed son of toil, sashayed out of his tarpaper shack-or was
it a log cabin?-in Pacific Palisades to challenge Bush for the
nomination. Reaganites, hurling epithets the way boys in school
dining rooms hurl hard ...