Campaign On Edge Of Nervous Breakdown

Doles campaign is imploding, publicly and embarrassingly, at exactly the time when the candidate seems finally to have discovered the joy of stump politics. Campaign rallies are organised on a few hours notice; aides laugh hysterically when asked where their candidate will be 24 hours hence.

As Doles advisers bicker about where he should go and what he should say, his campaign aeroplane flies across the country looking for somewhere to land. It is a campaign teetering on the edge of the absurd: on Tuesday, Dole became so obsessed with the issue of landing the campaign plane that he kicked off his morning stump speech with this insight into travel arrangements: Im gonna try to get to Denver yet today and back into National Airport before 10:20pm before they send us to Dulles, he told voters .

 

Perhaps they understood he was referring to noise restrictions which close Washingtons Nati- onal airport at night, diverting traffic to distant Dulles. Perhaps they did not.