Word: doled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Along the sawtooth edges of the Christian right, Reed is under suspicion as a political strategist who found religion rather than a committed religious conservative who found politics. He knows there is grumbling about him for tacitly backing Dole, a loser who hardly even touched on abortion and family issues in the campaign. Reed's defense--"It's hard to make the argument that this race would have been significantly closer if the nominee had been someone else" (Buchanan? Alan Keyes?)--is plausible enough. Even so, next time the pressure will be on Reed to find somebody agreeable to Gary...
Then there are the supply-siders, who became a force in the party again this year largely because centimillionaire Steve Forbes discovered the joy of politicking. Forbes says Dole's 15% tax cut didn't catch on because Dole failed to stay on message. "If you don't hammer that proposal consistently, it becomes fuzzy," Forbes says. He will stay in the game through his think tank, a required accessory for any serious candidate, and may run again in 2000. But don't count on Kemp. Fellow conservatives are turning against him for declining to play Dole's attack...
...moderates have the best argument," says neoconservative turned neoliberal Michael Lind, author of Up from Conservatism. "It remains to be seen if they have the same organization." Republican centrists are a dwindling breed. In the Senate, conciliators like Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, William Cohen of Maine--and Bob Dole--are leaving or have left. The G.O.P. leadership there is dominated by "movement" conservatives like Trent Lott of Mississippi and Don Nickles of Oklahoma. And the House leadership--Gingrich, Dick Armey and Tom DeLay--is Exhibit A in the argument that hard-right Southerners have taken over the party...
...more or less conservative country, the more or less conservative candidate--Bob Dole--should have been a shoo-in for the presidency, especially against a feckless charmer whose Administration threw off scandal like spores. But until the end, Dole was barely competitive, and in the end he lost. There are three schools of thought on why. The first...
Everything went wrong. Dole was so bloodied and bankrupted by Steve Forbes in the primaries that he never fully recovered. The choice of Kemp for Vice President seemed bold, but Kemp as candidate was not: he was weak and embarrassing. The Republicans took an early pounding on Medicare and were late in understanding the impact of a year's worth of anti-G.O.P. spots from what should once again be called Big Labor. The President's luck on almost everything held--until the very...