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Statewide, the Republican party is still predicting a return from the graveyard of irrelevance, though President Reagan--who carried this state last November 6--is the only GOP politician who has shown any signs of life...
...Washington, the meteorological chaos brings a heat wave to the Inaugural festivities. Unprepared GOP faithfuls are caught off guard by the high temperatures. Fur-clad women, collapsed from heat prostration, litter the broad boulevards of the capital. The genial second-term President quips in his vanguard speech, "no, I'm definitely not too could to be President...
...colleagues Stan Hoffman, Carnesale and Nye. More says to make Yankees and Russians say "hi." For Nye for Retch and for Dick Neustadt too. No chants in the Cabinet are waiting for you. Not even the Bay State went for old Fritz--For Labor or Treasury, ply the GOP with your wits...
With all the hoopla and commentary in the press about Reagan's alleged "personal mandate," it's easy to forget that the landslide GOP victory also reaffirmed George Bush. But the George Bush of 1984--the fervent Reaganitc who's fond of Texas boots and football expressions--is hardly the preppy Andover moderate...
...young and old, and of the rich and not-quite-as-rich. Yet the winningest President in recent years was less politically helpful than some of his lower level friends might have hoped; Republicans were able to capture only 14 seats in Congress (not the 25-30 some GOP analysts had hoped for) and actually surrendered two seats in the Senate. The relatively frayed Reagan coattails do not diminish the President's own land-slide, but they do serve to put proper perspective on the nature of the 1984 "mandate;" Americans like Ronald Reagan, but they still have reservations about...