Word: cloning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same unattainable goal--resurrecting some variant of the New Deal coalition. The left wing deludes itself to think that the Democrats can nominate a traditional liberal and still appeal to "middle America." The last three elections show that they can't. Similarly, the moderates hope to nominate a Republican clone and still retain the loyalty of minorities and liberals--which is equally impossible...
...evidence of an assassination conspiracy. In the meantime, Morton Downey Jr. shouts down guests nightly on his talk show; a parade of lesbian mothers, sex surrogates and rape victims tell their teary stories to Oprah and Phil; and several new series are in the works, including a Current Affair clone called Inside Edition and a new offering from Rivera dubbed The Investigators...
Spurning Wall Street, small investors take their money elsewhere. -- The IBM- clone makers revolt. -- America' s overburdened factories...
...crucial respect, Quayle may be much like Bush. Deferential and eager to please, Quayle is more likely to be the kind of No. 2 Bush was and yearns to clone now: blindly loyal and deeply grateful. Already the exuberant Quayle seems willing to run on the list of trivial traits the Bush camp keeps hailing him for: youth (if elected, he will be the third youngest Vice President, behind John Breckinridge and Richard Nixon); good looks (made for TV, not the silver screen -- Robert Redford may have had a point when he wrote to Quayle complaining about the overdone comparisons...
...Dukakis, as Bentsen pointed out, "wasn't looking for a clone of Mike Dukakis." He was looking for someone who would give the ticket balance, and by choosing one of the most probusiness, prodefense Southerners around, he got it. "It makes our problems much more difficult," says Republican John Connally, a former Texas Governor. Bentsen helps shield Dukakis from the liberal label Bush is trying to pin on him and makes the ticket more appealing to the Bubba vote: conservative whites who defected to Ronald Reagan...