Secrets of Highly Paid Campaign Consultants Revealed!

It's not hard to figure out what candidates are being told to say this fall:

"George Pataki, politics as usual."

-- Attack ad for New York Governor Mario Cuomo against his Republican opponent

"It's politics as usual."

-- Representative Martin Frost (D-Texas), answering accusations of election- law violations

"We need Bill Martini in Congress to end ... politics as usual."

-- New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, endorsing a local Republican candidate for Congress

"Burns is clearly 'politics as usual."'

-- Jack Mudd, Democratic challenger to U.S. Senator Conrad Burns (R-Montana)

"Old-style politics as usual."

-- Broadcast ad for Connecticut gubernatorial candidate William Curry, Democrat, on his Republican opponent John G. Rowland

"It's cynical, Washington politics as usual."

-- Virginia Senate candidate Oliver North, criticizing a Bill Clinton fund- raising appearance for Democratic incumbent Charles Robb