Word: autocrats
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...they can win. "Even professionals who've been in the minor leagues all their lives don't really appreciate what awaits them at the presidential level," says Michael Dukakis, who has more than a nodding acquaintance with the majors. As a nonprofessional, Perot recoiled when reality intruded, a petulant autocrat who apparently expected a grateful nation to crown him without dissent...
...Gennaro may be an autocrat, as Freitag says.He may be a visionary, as Gotwals says. He may bea little of both...
Voters like Ross Perot because he's a doer--and as a slick political operator and autocrat, he would no doubt "get things done" as president. But what "things"? If we are going to grant this guy so much power, we should get some idea of what he would do with...
...Humor me. Get out of your stereotype cliches that a guy who runs the company is, you know, an autocrat...
...next Romanov, should he get the job, must understand that he has been commissioned to reign, not rule. His usefulness to his country, and to the future of his family, depends on his being above politics -- a symbol, not an autocrat. The first post-Soviet parliament could audition all living Romanovs (of whom Grand Duke Vladimir, now living in France, is the most prominent) and pick the one who seems most amenable to these goals -- just as the English Parliament, in 1688, replaced a king it didn't trust (James II) with his daughter Mary and her Dutch husband William...