Accentuate . . . the negative.(Republican convention )(Brief Article)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: August 14, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

PHILADELPHIA--It was on the third night that the Republican convention stopped feeling like a Tupperware party and turned into the kind of political pep rally that the party faithful have come to expect of political conventions. And it was Dick Cheney's quiet blowtorch of a speech aimed at the Clinton-Gore administration that did the trick.

Despite all the early talk that having Cheney on the ticket would evoke memories of a more grown-up, less partisan Washington, it was the former defense secretary who lobbed the first live, prime-time charges at Gore. And the crowd loved ...

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