European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes wednesday october 24,1990walter r. Mearson one can match Bush As a fund Raiser his poll ratings have slumped but it does no to show at the Republican Cash Register As president Bush seeks Money and votes for gop candidates in a methodical unmatched off year election Campaign. He a helped raise More Campaign Money than any president before. By White House count Bush Campaign events have produced about $56.5 million for Republican candidates this year. That compares with about $33 million raised at Ronald Reagan a appearances in the last off year election Campaign. So far Bush has attended 67 Campaign events with More to come in the final two weeks. An extra push is Likely just before the nov. 6 elections to help mobilize republicans and turn out the vote. With the slip in Bush a popularity rating democrats have been saying that he a less of an asset claiming that some Republican candidates Are keeping their distance. A Wishful thinking a said a White House official adding that there has been no setup in the requests for Campaign help. That held despite Republican differences about the politically costly stalemate on the swelling Federal deficit which led Bush to Jettison his no new taxes pledge while Republican challengers for Congress were campaigning on that very theme. He a campaigned for dissenters including a senator who called his budget settlement a Turkey and a Senate challenger who likened the tax provisions to a mugging. Bush skirts their differences by saying that if there were More republicans in Congress the deficit and the budget  be such a mess. At one Point White House chief of staff John h. Sun Gnu suggested that republicans who broke with Bush on the budget might be taking a Campaign risk. Said he did no to threaten punishment. What i said was the president will go into your District and Campaign for you. He wants your support on the budget. I Hope that you supported him because if he looks you in the Eye and asks you to do it on the Campaign it might be a Little  even that Hasni to happened. Bush said he is campaigning for Broad principles not item by item backing. His Campaign Effort concentrates on Senate seats and governors first on defending threatened Republican incumbents then on boosting promising challengers. Emp ass along has been on fund raising and it began Early even before the election year with gop appearances the White House said helped raise about $25 million in 1989, the rallies and the speeches Are the visible Side of the Effort but the vital Campaign business is done at the $l,000-and-up receptions where donors get a presiden William Safi re tial greeting a handshake or a photo. That a the most effective kind of Campaign work for a president in an off year when he Isnit on the ballot. For All his campaigning Bush has avoided themes that would lend themselves to a Reading of the off year returns As a referendum on his presidency. The appraisal is inevitable but he a done nothing to encourage it the Way Reagan did in his off year campaigns. Reagan campaigned intensively in 1986 in an unsuccessful Effort to keep Republican control of the Senate. He said he did no to want to be a a six year president a with programs blocked by a democratic Senate. He urged voters to support Republican Senate candidates a if you a like to vote for me one last  but republicans lost the Senate that year. The democrats gained eight seats to the 55-vote majority they still hold. 3 3 Bush asks support for Republican candidates and principles without personalized appeals like Reagan a presidents who try that usually find their popularity is not transferable. And even when he topped the gop ticket Bush showed no coattails in winning the White House in 1988. So the circumstances fit a Start Early strategy concentrated on fund raising a Strong suit for any president a the president is raising a lot of Money for their candidates said Ronald a Brown the democratic National chairman but beyond the help that provides a it does no to really affect the politics of a state or a District a the chairman of the democratic governors association gov. Richard f. Celeste of Ohio said the Bush Campaign wont deliver votes. A it is a Cash cow which the republicans Are milking every effectively a he said last month. A it is not a raging Bull aimed at democratic  maybe not but the democrats do complain with some frequency that some of their candidates Are at a disadvantage because they Are being outspent. Associated press . Can learn from civil War in iraqi crisis Dumic Arnm a harpers ferry . Mission determines strategy. The recent pcs series on the civil War was flawed by a misperception held by Many historians that Union general George b. Mcclellan agreed with Lincoln s Mission of winning the War by destroying the Confederate army. By ascribing the military failures of the first two years of the War to Mcclellan a timidity the series absolved Lincoln of blame for horrendous military blunders. That made generals with the killer instinct a the North a Grant and the South a Lee a look All the better. Mcclellan a a the Young Napoleon a was surely cocky insubordinate and cautious to a fault but he did not lose great Battles. In fact after one of the yes men Lincoln preferred As general was routed at second Manassas Little Mac was called upon to reorganize the Defeated army and Stop Lee s invasion of the North. At Antietam a blood reddened Creek Mcclellan stopped Lee and for the second time saved the Union from defeat. But for failing to then destroy Leeds army he was fired As commander. That led to the defeat of the insecure Burnside at Fredericksburg and the incompetent Hooker at Chancellor Shijie. Yet Lincoln was not wrong to fire his Best and most tested general. Because their political goals were different their military strategies could never be reconciled. Lincoln a goal was to win the War and thereby to crush any possibility of secession. Mcclellan a goal was to deny Vic toy to the South and then to Settle the War on the basis of a the Union As it was a no secession but with slavery permitted to continue in the South which had been Lincoln a platform. He infuriated Lincoln by putting out peace feelers during negotiations for prisoner exchanges that might have led to peaceful separation. Hie Mission of peace with or without Union led to Mcclellan so a slows and permeated his strategy of fighting to Compromise. The end of his War and that of the peace democrats who nominated him to oppose Lincoln in 1864, would be reconciliation with slavery or peaceful separation. R Lincoln a strategy a take casualties As needed to Wear Down a smaller enemy a was rooted in his Mission not to be forced to Settle but to win. The end of his War would be Victory Union the principle of majority Rule a and As a moral and diplomatic Means to that end emancipation. Mission determines strategy. That a Why Mcclellan fought not to lose and Lincoln fought to win. Without suggesting that the War to come in Iraq is As Central to our identity As the civil War let us apply that principle to our Union of armies massed in saudi Arabia. If the Mission were merely to protect Oil supplies and to get Saddam Hussein to withdraw from most of Kuwait then our current strategy of economic blockade and military readiness would be consistent with that goal. Such a Mcclellan esque Mission a averting defeat seeking to Settle a is held by the soviet Union and France Iraq longtime pre eminent arms suppliers. It permeates the seventh floor of our own state department. The Primakow Mission clearly an Effort by Moscow to reach an accommodation undercuts the formerly United fronts decision to refuse negotiation until the aggression is reversed. Our Mission however is to remove the danger of a Power crazed dictator already the instigator of a million deaths who is known to be in the process of developing nuclear missiles capable of destroy my any City in the world then containment would be prelude to a blood letting disaster. Collective Security would be dead. Some find that nuclear danger alarmist two or three years away and insist a it can to happen  but with the Onrush of available technology the dictators demonstrated willingness to use weapons of mass destruction and our own Lack of an anti missile shield a prudent people conclude that it can happen Here. Nuclear weaponry is a great superpower equalizer. In the hands of a ruler undeterred by the certainty of retaliation it shifts the balance of terror. The cancer is about to metastasize and we hold the Scalpel in our hand. The Mission is to be decided on the basis of an assessment of risk if Saddam does not threaten us our strategy should be to squeeze and Settle. If he does we should strike to save millions of lives. Mcclellan lives. We hear his counsel of delay in Moscow in Paris in the seventh floor of our state department. Does the Man in the White House now sense the Mission of protecting Freedom in the future if so the painful Dis enthralling strategy becomes Clear. 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