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...party, President and opposition and often won. Fans cite a host of defeats of old-style liberalism, starting with his successful fight in 1993 to make Clinton focus on debt reduction rather than new spending. He later pushed for welfare reform and NAFTA, both of which had more GOP than Democratic backing...
...said. They cited as a prime example a Republican ad that flashed the word "rats" across the screen when referring to "Democratic bureaucrats." Both Strother and Davis agreed that this was more likely the work of a quick-witted technician than any subliminal advertising on the part of the GOP camp...
...differences between them have never seemed more stark: Tuesday night's debate was, ultimately, a paean to days gone by, when the GOP actually kept out of people's personal lives and the Democrats doled out federal funding without a second thought. St. Louis inspired Bush and Gore to abandon the middle ground altogether. Bush wants a teensy, tiny federal government, where meetings are short and there's plenty of time for jogging. Gore envisions federal tentacles creeping into every last aspect of public life, including education, health care and gun control...
...Harvard's 14 or so registered members of the GOP, I find the whole business rather entertaining--and as Machiavelli noted wisely, it is a far better thing to be feared than loved. Nevertheless, my heart goes out to my fearful fellow students, with their Mondale-Ferraro memories and their yearning glances at socialist Canada--and so I try, without much success, to point out that a Bush victory in November might not be all that...
...kind of animated when he talked about it in the last debate. And if you remember back to the primaries he was positively giddy at times. Interestingly, the swing states of the Midwest are basically anti?death penalty. Michigan, for instance, doesn't have the DP and GOP governor John Engler opposes it. So does Minnesota's Jesse Ventura. I don't think hang-'em-high helps Bush...