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...party's collective confusion is on display from the campaign stump to Congress. Mondale preaches compassion, Hart calls for "new ideas." Old liberals like Tip O'Neill support massive jobs bills, while young reformers vote to freeze spending on all domestic programs. Southern Democrats seek to contain Communism in Central America, while Northern Democrats look at El Salvador and see Viet Nam. No center holds. "The party is floundering because it lacks a vision of where it is going," says Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber. "Where there is no vision, the parties perish...
...diluted, their dress is subdued, their ambition is high. They eschew the flamboyant rhetoric of old pols like Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd and House Majority Leader James Wright of Texas, preferring a more measured and sometimes sardonic tone. They even look alike, which is to say telegenic. Says Hart, their most conspicuous spokesman: "Everyone in my generation is good on television. If we weren't, we wouldn't have...
...their obvious intelligence, however, it is not always easy to know just what neoliberals stand for. Pragmatism is a sound approach to governance, but it is not a clarion call. Challenged to offer specific "new ideas," Hart would drone on about individual training accounts for workers or the need for smaller aircraft carriers. His high-tech notions were often imaginative, but they benumbed voters...
...Gary Hart likes to say that if he is elected President, he will assemble management, labor and finance leaders of "key" industries such as steel and autos at the White House, where they will jawbone out a deal under Government guidance. Labor would make concessions in wage demands in return for job guarantees, business would promise to reinvest in new equipment in exchange for Government-backed loans, and so forth. It is an interesting idea, until one recalls the exhausting battles that invariably surround a single corporate bailout, such as that of Lockheed or Chrysler Corp. Moreover, an industrial recovery...
...French consortium. Walter Mondale had other reasons for picking the same digs as his headquarters during the Democratic Convention, starting with its location one block from Moscone Center. By contrast, the other two Democratic presidential candidates will be staying a traffic-clogged half-mile away on Union Square - Gary Hart at the venerable Westin St. Francis and Jesse Jackson at the high-rise Hyatt...