Word: beltways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Virginian whose onetime political benefactor betrayed the state's true Republican principles. "Two years ago," Miller tells Republican audiences, "John Warner stabbed this party in the back and now expects this party to raise him on its shoulders. That is wrong!" His fund-raising letter describes Warner as a Beltway insider more likely to be "dining at the elegant Palm restaurant in Washington with liberal TV 'journalist' Barbara Walters than testing his hunting rifle." That is Miller's way of reminding social conservatives that he is happily married to his college sweetheart while Warner, divorced from a Mellon heiress...
...Dole had to quit as both majority leader and Senator in order to make the presidential race real to himself. Only by surrendering something he loved could he prove to himself--and to the voters and to Beltway know-it-alls--that there was something he valued even more. Only by giving up everything could he show he was willing to risk everything. As the song goes, now he had nothing left to lose...
...majority leadership? Reed asked. No, the whole shooting match, Dole replied. Reed recognized the "transformational" power of such a move and encouraged Dole to go with his own instinct. As a candidate unencumbered by office, he could follow his own version of triangulation, distancing himself from Newt and attacking Beltway Bill...
...DOLE Makeover from Beltway Insider to Outsider-on-the-Inside-Track revitalizes his campaign...
...some mainstream credibility. Despite its bumpy start, the show has done that, eliciting a few newsmaking quotes in its first weeks from such guests as Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour. Executive producer Marty Ryan, who once ran NBC's Today Show, says the program will move outside the Beltway on occasion, in an effort to broaden its appeal. "What we want to do is bring some new people into the tent on Sunday mornings," he says. Fox has also beefed up its political coverage, hiring Emily Rooney, former executive producer of ABC's World News Tonight...