Even after supporting him in the no-confidence vote, many LDP members are leery about having Mori lead the party into the upper house polls due next July.

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He was so good at it that he conned the news media into thinking he was the most remarkable general officer in the last 40 years, and, by playing hard to get, he conned the political establishment into thinking that he could morph into Ike Part Deux and might one day be persuaded to lead a moribund political party back to the White House.

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