Word: defeats
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Oklahoma Democrat James Jones commands a lot of respect in Congress. He is patient and intelligent, moderate and courageous. Yet the Republicans very badly want to defeat him, indeed to skin him, and not just because he comes from a conservative, Republican district. As chairman of the Budget Committee, Jones has led the floor fight against the President's proposed budgets, all of which projected deficits so large that no Republican dared sponsor them. He has also committed the even greater sin of offering budget plans of his own with lower deficits. To cap it off, Jones has countered...
...Time, the Wall Street Journal, and National Review wax too eloquent about the significance of Canada's recent election they should ponder this: the September 4th result was undoubtedly the Conservative Party's greatest electoral victory. It may also turn out to be Canadian conservatism's greatest single defeat...
Where does this leave the Liberal Party? The magnitude of its defeat cannot be minimized. Under Pierre Trudeau the Liberal Party had fashioned an electoral coalition made up of women, young people, ethnic minorities, and French-speaking Canadians. Each of the groups spurned John Turner, Mr. Trudeau's successor. The critical electoral fortress of Quebec has been lost. The socialist New Democrat Party regained many supporters that Mr. Trudeau had successfully weaned away. Despite Mr. Turner's courageous decision to seek and win a seat in Western Canada--the one part of the country that remained impervious to Mr. Trudeau...
Will the Liberal Party be able to regain its traditional terrain? This is the essential question of the election. Will this defeat be the start of a permanent realignment in favor of the Conservative Party or will it be a temporary outburst like the avalanche that elected John Diefenbaker...
...fails to recoganize true political genius (as did my conservative cohorts in Lowell. House last year when they soundly voted down a friend who ran on a the most brilliant of any Council platform yet conceived: "Vote for me or I'll throw away your grandparents." Incidentally, the brutal defeat forced him to run a single-issue campaign this year focusing on the unpleasant vagaries of the Core Curriculum.) But at least some of that genius is bound to slip through, and the results could breed a whole new respect for political sophistication...