Word: californianism
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...double-edged drive was difficult for Reagan and his putative running mate. Having told Southerners that Schweiker was not nearly as liberal as his voting record suggests, they argued in the North that Reagan's very selection of Schweiker showed that the Californian was not as doctrinaire and rigid a conservative as he has been portrayed. With this rationalization, Reagan managed to open a few more small cracks in Ford's strongest bastions. But he was still far short of cracking those bastions wide enough to give him more than a long-shot chance in Kansas City...
...consensus of party professionals is that Ford will make a guarded offer of the vice presidency to Reagan. Reagan finds this a wry irony. "He doesn't have to worry," says the Californian. "I absolutely will never take that job." Reminded that others in the past have abruptly reversed themselves and accepted the second spot, Reagan sounds absolute. "They were all politicians," he says. "I'm not. I know there's a great deal of cynicism about what I say on this, but I want to be believed." He says he intends to stay free to take...
Though Ronald Reagan's chances of winning the Republican nomination are dimming, his campaign has had an impact on the nation's economic policy. The Californian has given exceptionally forceful voice to a persistent strain of Republican thought-and put unremitting pressure on President Ford to follow a rigidly conservative line. Reagan's followers will undoubtedly keep up that pressure throughout the campaign, if Ford carries the Republican banner. And if Reagan defies the odds and walks off with the nomination, the nation will hear a set of economic views that have rarely been voiced with such...
...reluctant vote for Carter only after looking his hero in the eye and asking him "if he really meant we should support Carter. He told me he really meant it." Skinner expects Wallace supporters to "follow George's advice and vote for Carter over Reagan" if the Californian is nominated...
...luxury of turning an incumbent President out of office. Others could be swayed by the fact that Ford, as he emphasized during a White House press conference last week, has not ruled anybody out in weighing vice-presidential candidates. It was an obvious reference to Reagan, but the Californian quickly reiterated that he was not interested...