Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While liberals hold away in the rural suburbs in the district's left-leaning mid-section, President Reagan's appeal to the blue-collar, Catholic vote--which is centered in Lowell and Lawrence--worked here in 1980. Reagan carried the district 44 to 40 percent over former President Jimmy Carter, a margin of 11,000 votes and two percentage points better than the state total...
State Republican leaders, while lamenting their party's fortunes, appear to have no real remedy for their problems. The strategy conducted by younger, more conservative Republicans of identifying with the President may not pay off. Much of the Reagan support came from a dislike of Jimmy Carter, not because the state had made a rightward swing. The true test will be in November, when Reagan takes on the Dukakis machine in the state...
Leadership. The Reagan campaign likes to refer to Mondale as "Carter-Mondale," to taint him with the image of fecklessness that is associated with Jimmy Carter's term. Again, the hatchet work has been delegated to Bush. He pointedly told voters that a leading Democrat, Mondale's primary opponent Colorado Senator Gary Hart, referred to the Carter Administration's handling of the Iran hostage crisis as "our days of shame." Bush also swiped at Mondale as the tool of "special interests" who is "asking the working people to pay off his billion-dollar promises...
While Reagan grappled with such theoretical concepts, it was left to Vice President George Bush to launch a partisan counterattack to Mondale's criticism of the President. Said he: "I would say to Mr. Mondale, 'When you were serving with Jimmy Carter, a Fundamentalist Baptist, a man of deep convictions, I never heard this criticism. I don't recall, Mr. Mondale, your criticizing the National Council of Churches when they involved themselves, usually on the liberal side of most of these concerns.' This is a born-again concern of Mr. Mondale...
Reagan dramatically reversed Carter's decision in 1981 and hustled the B-1 into production. But now B-1 opponents have a new complaint: they claim the plane will soon be outdated by the Stealth bomber, with its new radar-evading technology and design, due to become operational in the early 1990s...