They seem to believe that in 22 months the voters will have forgotten about this.
However, the Quinnipiac poll suggests that voters have either forgotten about that income tax cut or are not impressed.
"Just because it is not up on the air doesn't mean voters have forgotten it."
Even so, voters could not forget the fiercely dramatic 1988 pledge.
That's the kind of post-impeachment action that will make voters forget Monica Lewinsky forever.
What Governor Whitman's aides hope is that voters forget all about this bond business during the summer.
If all goes well, most voters will have forgotten he was ever ill.
Soon voters will have forgotten President Bush's last two years in office, when he fiddled while all these foreign crises festered.
"And it appears that he will say anything in the hope that voters will forget his past record."
Many in the party hope that by the 2000 elections, voters will have long forgotten impeachment.