Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush doesn't do that--his anti-politician pretensions are harmless. He scoffs at statistics, but no one really minds; he swears in public, but it doesn't really offend anyone. And it seems like he's doing it on purpose, trying to cultivate an anti-Clinton image...
...preoccupation with image is exactly the kind of politics the voters who put Jesse Ventura in office are sick of. Jesse Ventura, as his recent comments in Playboy made painfully clear, does not care about image. Bush, on the other hand, is trying to create the image of someone who doesn't care about image...
Before this race is over, voters may well see through Bush's posturing. Even if they don't, there is a danger in running as an anti-politician. It only takes a couple of Jesse Venturas bashing organized religion to remind us why we've been electing those loathsome politicians to office all these years in the first place. And as columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. '73 wrote yesterday, Ventura's act is already wearing thin. By the time Ventura-style brashness no longer seems like such a smart political move, will it be too late for Bush to change gears...
...George W. Bush isn?t careful, he?s going to make the Republican party popular again. The front-running Texas governor on Tuesday rolled out the second of three major education proposals for a conservative Manhattan crowd ?- and pointedly accused them of straying from the true path. "Too often on social issues my party has painted an image of America slouching toward Gomorrah.... Too often my party has focused on the national economy to the exclusion of all else.... Too often my party has confused the need for limited government with the disdain for government itself," he said...
...True, Bush did apply the classic GOP formula to education reform: States and localities, not the federal government, should decide how and where to spend Washington?s education dollars. But here?s the rub that may lead the Republicans back to the center of this issue ?- and rub some of them the wrong way: The states don?t get to run off without a chaperone. The proposal is filled with ways to let states use federal education dollars more freely, including passing them along to parents in the form of vouchers for private or charter schools. But in exchange, Bush...