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From RFK to GWB - In 2000, echoes of 1968
National Review, June 5, 2000 by Michael Knox Beran
Can Bush win with a challenge to the entitlement state undertaken in the name of a new (and entrepreneurial) brand of conservative compassion? The answer is unclear. The strategy has never been tested electorally. (At least not in a presidential election.) Robert Kennedy was assassinated in the midst of his campaign for the White House; and in any event he struggled with the Gore-like problem of trying to reconcile his desire for reform with the need to appease left-of-center interest groups in his party.
Bush doesn't have that problem; he can go farther than Kennedy could in the cause of reform. But Bush's strategy is still, as Gore would say, a risky one. As any entrepreneur will tell you, you need to take risks if you want rewards.
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