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...other words, politicians are focusing on how Buchanan's candidacy will affect the partisan warfare and determine the election outcome. They consider his role in influencing the course of national politics or question the economic soundness of a complete withdrawal from the global economy. Anti-Buchanan arguments like these do very little for the American people and their values system; they merely teach them the art of campaign tactics. The social conservatism advocated by Buchanan should frighten and outrage our populace, and yet all it does is present politicians and voters with an unexpected, but unfortunately accepted variable...
...Because popular opinion is not necessarily expressed. Morris' memo specified that Dole would lose the New Hampshire and Iowa primaries if he did not follow Morris' advice. Since Dole is from Kansas, the fact that New Hampshire and Iowa would affect his political decisions could shift his concern to states other than Kansas. Dole would act neither as a Senator nor a Statesman should, because his attention would not be focused on his state. This politicking is so ingrained in the political process that it doesn't seem wrong...
...play by. The best example is the Vietnam War, which the Mandarins dreamed up and then didn't fight in. Lifers and Talents see the Mandarins as being selectively compassionate--about racism and sexism and international human rights, but not crime or falling wages--and then creating remedies that affect everybody but them. The idea that (in the words of President Reagan) "government is the problem" is a proxy way of voicing the suspicion that the Mandarins are going to use government to assuage their consciences in a way that inconveniences everybody else...
...Council. And I'm still very happy he won the next day, having distributed copies of this column to council members just before the vote. I supported him as the advocate of projects that the council should be associated with: projects, like the petition for Core bypasses, which directly affect students; on which there is a large consensus among students; and which have real potential for council-sponsored action instead of grand pontification...
...Balfrey said Buchanan's stance on Pratt does not affect her support...