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...novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. But in response to the anti-authoritarianism of the young radicals, the right suddenly restyled itself as the defender of authority in all its manifestations -- legal, familial, religious and military. "Traditional values" made their first tentative debut in the '68 Republican campaign, when Spiro Agnew promised to cure social unrest with a mass spanking. It was in '68 that a "New Right" -- toughened with the grass- roots racism of George Wallace, fortified intellectually by the neoconservatives -- emerged to uphold the traditional icons of God, family and flag...
...know you are not fond of the usual band of Crimson writers who hound you for post-game interviews and lambast you on this page. Go ahead, borrow a page from former vice president Spiro T. Agnew (that's a politician that you probably remember) and call them "nattering nabobs of negativism." They don't understand just how difficult your job really...
...campaign is that of a deer caught in the headlights: a helpless thing frozen in the path of destruction. In Houston, however, Quayle labored -- with some success -- to transform himself into a snarling attack dog, on the model of such G.O.P. vice-presidential nominees as Bob Dole and Spiro Agnew. Before the largest prime-time TV audience he has addressed, Quayle abandoned his attempted oratorical gravitas and delivered a withering attack on what he has called the "liberal cultural elite," which he has targeted to help distract attention from the economy. Liberals "look down on our beliefs," Quayle growled. Bill...
...populist drum on cultural and moral matters. To a standing ovation from the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis last week, Quayle declared that the hoots of nationwide amusement at his Murphy Brown efforts were a "badge of honor." A "cultural elite," cynical and relativistic, the same folk Spiro Agnew used to call the "nattering nabobs of negativism" 20 years back, was still undermining the good old American values, "the simple but hard virtues...
BACK IN THE DARK AGES, WHEN VICE PRESIDENT SPIRO Agnew attacked the press as "nattering nabobs of negativism," Eugene McCarthy agreed with Agnew's critique but disagreed with his right to say it. Authentic advocacy requires standing, McCarthy argued, especially in politics, where any fool can speak and every fool does. If record and reputation defy one's rhetoric, even the right talk fails the heft test. The same standard applies to the current Vice President. It is not that Dan Quayle's family-values sermon missed the mark; much of what he said was right. It is that Quayle...