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As the Democrats meet in Atlanta with their pre-packaged slate, attention turns to Bush vice-presidential choice, with a couple of new names floated. Boston Herald columnist Niles Lathem reports “a major crusade” under way to pick black NSC advisor Lieut. Gen. Colin Powell, whose skills in planning Moscow Summit were widely noted…. Washington Post liberal columnist Mark Shields (a MacNeil-Lehrer regular) makes case for New York U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who has splashily taken on both the Mafia and Wall Street. Bush met with Giuliani last week, the N. Y. Daily News reported, but said Giuliani denied they discussed a big job in Washington…. Also increasingly visible, a grassroots boom for former UN Amb. Jeane Kirkpatrick. … In run-up column to the Atlanta Convention, Mary McGrory warned Democrats that the Jesse Jackson problem will not go away with the convention. “Jackson,” she said, “has found his calling. It is reminding Democrats that he is wonderful and powerful, and nobody must forget it for a moment.”

Democrats may be the party of compassion and civil rights but the only two blacks running for Senate this year are Republicans: Maurice Dawkins in Virginia, against the very popular Chuck Robb; and former U.S. Ass’t Sec. of State Alan Keyes against Paul Sarbanes in Maryland. (The same state convention that named Dawkins appointed conservative heavyweight Morton Blackwell Republican National Committeeman for Virginia.)… Helped by Bentsen choice, chances of George Voinovich. With John Glenn on ticket, fellow Ohioan Sen. Howard Metzenbaum would have been helped…. FEC reports Lowell Weicker has amassed $1.8 million for re-election campaign against Conn. Attorney General Joseph Lieberman. Weicker, whose ADA rating is twenty points higher than Chris Dodd’s, goes into the race cocky as always. “There may be Republicans out there who don’t want to vote for Lowell Weicker,” he says, “but they are not going to vote for Joe Lieberman.” … In New York, Sen. Moynihan is not worried about challenge from Communist peace activist Charlene Mitchell, but he can’t like her description of him as “a Reaganite in liberal clothing.”… Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has targeted Republican Rep. Newt Gingrich for political extinction, presumably for the sin of lèse-magesté It was Gingrich who rang the bell on Jim Wright.

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As the Democrats meet in Atlanta with their pre-packaged slate, attention turns to Bush vice-presidential choice, with a couple of new names floated. Boston Herald columnist Niles Lathem reports “a major crusade” under way to pick black NSC advisor Lieut. Gen. Colin Powell, whose skills in planning Moscow Summit were widely noted…. Washington Post liberal columnist Mark Shields (a MacNeil-Lehrer regular) makes case for New York U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who has splashily taken on both the Mafia and Wall Street. Bush met with Giuliani last week, the N. Y. Daily News reported, but said Giuliani denied they discussed a big job in Washington…. Also increasingly visible, a grassroots boom for former UN Amb. Jeane Kirkpatrick. … In run-up column to the Atlanta Convention, Mary McGrory warned Democrats that the Jesse Jackson problem will not go away with the convention. “Jackson,” she said, “has found his calling. It is reminding Democrats that he is wonderful and powerful, and nobody must forget it for a moment.”

Democrats may be the party of compassion and civil rights but the only two blacks running for Senate this year are Republicans: Maurice Dawkins in Virginia, against the very popular Chuck Robb; and former U.S. Ass’t Sec. of State Alan Keyes against Paul Sarbanes in Maryland. (The same state convention that named Dawkins appointed conservative heavyweight Morton Blackwell Republican National Committeeman for Virginia.)… Helped by Bentsen choice, chances of George Voinovich. With John Glenn on ticket, fellow Ohioan Sen. Howard Metzenbaum would have been helped…. FEC reports Lowell Weicker has amassed $1.8 million for re-election campaign against Conn. Attorney General Joseph Lieberman. Weicker, whose ADA rating is twenty points higher than Chris Dodd’s, goes into the race cocky as always. “There may be Republicans out there who don’t want to vote for Lowell Weicker,” he says, “but they are not going to vote for Joe Lieberman.” … In New York, Sen. Moynihan is not worried about challenge from Communist peace activist Charlene Mitchell, but he can’t like her description of him as “a Reaganite in liberal clothing.”… Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has targeted Republican Rep. Newt Gingrich for political extinction, presumably for the sin of lèse-magesté It was Gingrich who rang the bell on Jim Wright.