European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes columns George will Bush should support Bork for attorney general in the first of two moves to make himself seem bold and interesting George Bush should say or. President nominate ased Meuse s successor the Man obviously most qualified to be attorney general a Man who has served with distinction As a judge and As solicitor general a Man who lord knows is familiar with the confirmation process and has been shown to have no Skeleton in his closet his enemies scoured the closet in Vaina Man so familiar to the senators that they would have no excuse for not acting with dispatch. The Man is Robert Bork. Nominating Bork would be consign punishment for the senators who com prised last year s Lynch mob. They would have to slither around the oily hypocrisies they then advanced. You remember Many said they Only opposed Bork because of the balance of the supreme court and no one questions his Intelli gence or integrity Only his judicial temperament and if Bork had been nominated to a position to serve As the president s Man during the president s term it would be different. So they said. Nominating Bork would make the president seem feisty in his final phase. William Welch democrats do not want to fight with him because he is popular and because the nation s problems require the torture of thought. And democrats do not want to enter the autumn Campaign looking like so Many Brut uses with Bork s blood again on their togas and with Bush say ing to the voters hey the democrats have done it again so you should again whack them across the Bridges of their noses with an electoral repudiation. The second thing Bush should do is Settle on an interesting running mate. Here Are three possibilities. Wyoming s sen. Alan Simpson is funny intentionally so unlike. Well never mind and has the advantage of coming from a state with a piddling three electoral votes that Bush will win anyway. The Choice of Simpson would signal heroic disregard for conventional calculations which is a Clever calculation. Simpson does have a volcanic indeed Vesuviano temper and he is even by current disgraceful Republican standards awfully smitten with Gorba Chev. But boys will be boys. Another Good Choice would be Gen. Colin Powell president Reagan s National Security adviser. He is Bright As a new Nickel and sound on the Issue it can be fatal to be unsound on the soviet Union. His nomination would under score Michael Dukakis weakest Dimen Sion foreign policy. And Powell is Black. His nomination would come one month after democrats do not nominate Jesse Jackson for vice president. Some say the nation s residual racism would make Powell s nomination Politi Cally imprudent. They Are underestimating the country and the capacity of bold Ness by a conservative party to have a constructive effect. Remember the conservative party gave Britain its first jew ish and female prime ministers. A third possible Bush Choice is a Man who currently holds in sacred Trust the nation s highest office Peter Ueberroth baseball commissioner. He is intelligent and formidable. Butter does not melt in his Mouth when pursuing an objective As he showed when running the 1984 olympics. And on this season s simmer ing Issue drugs he makes sense. He says ninety percent of All coca plants Are grown in two countries Bolivia and Peru. In 1984, Peru had upward of 40,000 acres of them. Today it has 600,000 acres. It would be cheap a pittance compared to the costs of the drug epidemic to buy out the Farmers who get Little drug Money. Remember what Nixon did with Turkey pressure and incentives to diminish the heroin Trade. On the demand Side we have in expensive communications technologies for teaching health to Young people thereby ending America s role As the world s drugstore. And there is Ueberroth s California connection. If Dukakis does not carry California he goes Back to Brookline. In late 1985, a California poll measured the standing of various Public figures. An equal number of favourable and unfavourable responses earned a person a 100. Two to one favourable Over unfavourable was 200. California s sen. Alan Cranston had 200, gov. George Deukmejian 270, Gerald Ford 370, Ueberroth 1,100. A los Angeles times poll of february 1986, showed Ueberroth with 86 percent favourable 9 percent unfavourable 5 per cent no response. Polls today would reflect the fact that he has been less conspicuous than he was when running the olympics and be coming time s person of the year. How Ever he has not been invisible since then and the Basic Point of those polls is that the Public saw in him something it liked a lot. Neither Dukakis nor Bush has yet generated such poll response. Washington Post writers group despite their similarities Dukakis is not Carter Michael Dukakis is not an unsmiling Jimmy Carter goes the joke. Dukakis has smiled once or twice. An editorial cartoon recently depicted Dukakis with a Mouthful of Carter like Teeth. On the surface there Are some similarities Between Dukakis and Carter. Both Are or were governors. Both sprang to National prominence still strangers to Many voters. Both were Washington outsiders. Both came lacking in foreign policy experience. Whether the similarities run deeper is being debated. It s probably unfair to both of them because the comparison being drawn is designed to put Dukakis Down said James p. Shenton a Columbia University history professor who specializes in governors. The presumption is that somehow Carter was a fail ure he said. I think Carter was a Man who As we move away from him May prove to be a somewhat better president than we  vice president George Bush who As the certain re publican presidential nominee will oppose Dukakis this fall has talked up the comparison to Carter. Faced with an ominous decline in the polls and sen sing he s being Hurt by recent Reagan administration problems Bush would love to Frame the election As a referendum on the Carter presidency. Never mind that Carter s one term ended eight years ago. Bush has been reminding people of the High interest rates High inflation and perception of weakness that dragged Carter Down. It s a tactic Ronald Reagan successfully used against Walter Mondale in 1984. It All sounds like Jimmy Carter reborn Bush said recently of democratic views. We Don t want to go Back to the policies that the Liberal democrats had under Jimmy Carter that led us to those Days of malaise he said on another occasion. So far there is no sign Bush is succeeding in Selling the idea that 1988 voters should base their decision on 1980. Polls suggest voters Are ready to move on to the Post Reagan years and Are looking to this election with , William Schneider political analyst at the conservative american Enterprise Institute argues that there Are some similarities Between Dukakis and Carter that go beyond the  democrats he says share an approach to poli tics that is different from that of More traditional demo cratic candidates. Both Are regarded As technocrats who see politics As a matter of management rather than reconciling divergent interests. They re both problem solvers he said. They both Are essentially running against the interests that run the show in Washington. They both believe that political Fil Prum Tell this Oke one More time issues Are technical issues with right answers. And Nei ther one of them has a Strong political  lacking that Strong base Carter found few supporter when things went wrong such As the Energy crisis or the Iran crisis he , by contrast had supporters who stayed Loyal through such controversies As the Iran Contra  contends the Carter Dukakis comparison makes sense to voters although they May not be Able tout their Finger on Why. I think they have an intuitive sense that there s some thing similar Between Carter and Dukakis in their View of politics he said. They re both kind of cold blooded smart not glad Banders and not comfortable with Politi Cal give and  dismiss the comparisons. I Don t think it s accurate at All said Shenton who has studied the cases of governors who became presi dents. Carter was a More traditional and not particularly innovative governor he , a product of Massachusetts political caul Dron was a reformer who was turned out of office in disown party s primary after one term then regained office. He appeared changed by the trauma of  the traditional name of the game is patronage he broke the rules and in fact he lost his first re election bid because he did come in As a reformer Shenton said. He s a person who has been innovative in terms of therole of governor and the functions of state  As for the Lack of foreign policy experience an expertise on the part of Carter and Dukakis the same could be said of other governors who became  cited Reagan and Franklin d. Roosevelt. The associated press