GRAPEVINE

By DAVID ELLIS

Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher is emerging as the most likely choice to chair Bush's re-election campaign in 1992. A proficient fund raiser, Mosbacher wants the job and ranks as a longtime Bush crony. But his talents run more toward glad-handing than mapping strategy or managing a far-flung staff. Those tasks will probably be left to Robert Teeter, a veteran of the 1988 campaign and public opinion expert. Chief of staff John Sununu also plans to exercise considerable control over the campaign. And hard-hitting political adman Roger Ailes, who has been coaching Bush on his TV appearances throughout the gulf crisis, is expected to return as image adviser.

With reporting by Linda Williams