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...Democratic Leadership Council was created to free the party from the "encumbrance" of special interests and move it to the center. A centrist candidate who was strong on defense was thought to have the best chance to win the 1988 election, and Super Tuesday was created in the South to give such a candidate a boost. There was even talk for a while of "Atari Democrats," managerial types who would forget past labels and leap into the next creative age of Government-inspired technology. Democrats, while trying to build their dream candidate, were unconsciously fashioning that Frankenstein's monster...
...President will practice budget restraint at home and respond prudently to Mikhail Gorbachev's overtures abroad. "Each candidate is a pragmatist," contends Stuart Eizenstat, who was Jimmy Carter's chief domestic adviser. "Neither is an ideologue. Temperamentally, each is cautious and, within his own party, more or less a centrist...
...country delivered its mandate...[and is] on the way to a transition to an authentic democracy," Patricio Aylwin, president of the centrist Christian Democratic Party and leader of a 16-party opposition coalition, told cheering supporters...
...Dukakis is the party's first postliberal nominee: he blends thrift, managerial skill, social tolerance and a nonbellicose foreign policy with the Democratic mantra of "Good jobs at good wages." By anointing Bentsen last week, Dukakis further complicated the game of pin-the-label-on- the-donkey. With his centrist, probusiness views, Bentsen is a preliberal, a throwback to the days of the Solid South, when Democrats were created by birth, not belief. Thus the party that ruled almost uninterrupted during the Great Liberal Hegemony from 1932 to 1968 has paired a postliberal with a preliberal for a ticket that...
...because of NATO's deployment of its own missiles. That woolly assertion contributed to the impression that he was a naif on foreign policy. But as he quizzed the professors, Dukakis expressed a keener appreciation of the nuances. Out of the session came the foundation for a studiously centrist foreign policy address he gave last month. Says Harvard's Nye: "He has not changed his views or first principles, but he has been deepening his feel for the issues involved...