Who is the real reformer?

摘要

The harder George W.Bush campaigns these days, the twangier he gets. "What I'm 'a do," he said last week, jutting his jaw in South Carolina, "is remind people about my record—remind people that I'm comin' with a record from outside Washington." But it is a measure of the trouble Bush is in that when he started doing that—unveiling a new slogan, A REFORMER WITH RESULTS—he was trying to climb inside the knight's armor already worn by John McCain. And going after McCain for "passing the plate to lobbyists and special interests" is an odd choice for Bush, the $67 million candidate who refuses to abide by federal fund-raising limits. So by the time Bush hit Newberry, S.C., and started stringing all his favorite phrases into one—"A reformer with results is a conservative who has had compassionate results in the state of Texas"—even some of his supporters had to chuckle. It sounded like prattle, message without meaning— the kind of thing his father would say.