Word: babbits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hypocrisy and partisanbased sniping, Babbit took unusual stances for a politician--as when in 1988 he stood out from among the droves of Democratic dwarfs early in the campaign by standing up for a tax raise...
...Babbit, for one, called for the end of the Presidential primary system that gives the conservative votes of the state to our immediate north incredible clout. Opposition to this unrepresentative method of electing our presidents is a position advocated by everyone concerned with politics--everyone, that is, except for those who ever hope to become president...
...there is method to Babbit's apparent madness. He is in the process of honing a straight-talking image, something sure to play well after eight years of Reagan and the recent campaign of George "Read My Lips" Bush and his spate of media advisers. (This plain campaign style could help Rudy Giuliani, the well-known former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, become the city's next mayor...
...BABBIT is a smart, thoughtful, articulate politician. Even so, during his speech entitled, "The End of Idealism," I couldn't get the picture out of my head of Jimmy Stewart as the Mr. Smith who went to Washington. The particular comparison with Stewart I would make was more like the famed actor's stump speech after the sequel, Mr. Smith Goes to the White House, which didn't do well at the box office. (As it turns out, unfortunately for this prissy good-government scenario, Babbit is now a Capitol Hill lobbyist for a group of healthy savings and loans...
What I saw was an aw-shucks style, enhanced by Babbit's drawl and the way he would summarize a complicated point by explaining exuberantly...