Word: kemp
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...much of the new moralism crosses party lines. Democracy's Discontent, the recent pro-virtue book by liberal scholar Michael Sandel, got a column-long tribute from conservative George Will. The "communitarians," such as Amitai Etzioni, draw praise from the left (Clinton and Al Gore) and the right (Jack Kemp and Bennett). And Bennett's attack on tabloid TV came at the suggestion of a Democrat, Senator Joseph Lieberman...
This has been a fairly moldy year. Morris helped Bill Clinton, post-1994, refit his adaptable self to imitate those Republican positions that the polls said the public favored. When Jack Kemp signed on to the Dole ticket, he modified what had seemed, the week before, his principled positions on affirmative action and the children of illegal immigrants. At last week's convention, Al Gore's excruciatingly extended description of his own sister's death from lung cancer in 1984 was at preposterous variance with his hymn to tobacco farming while seeking votes in North Carolina in 1988. Late last...
...DOLE, KEMP AND THE G.O.P...
...immigrant or poor or black. Or did, until they made him take it back. But even now Kemp fits the theme: He's nice. Though Dole's nice too this week, and more concise. (Dole's daughter Robin told the crowd he's pleasant. He was a dandy dad, though none too present.) And Dole himself, with admirable pith, Said bigots could just leave the hall forthwith. This showed the Houston spirit was no more: There was no sudden scramble for the door...
CHICAGO: It's a good thing that political positions can't be copyrighted, because if they could, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp and a legion of other GOP leaders would be sending bills to the Clinton Administration. Consider the handy term "empowerment" (translation: do it yourself). Bush once talked of empowering the states to reform health care; Kemp preached empowering inner-city residents to earn their way to middle-class prosperity. Clinton Administration officials now want to empower Americans to do a lot of things the federal government has always seen (and budgeted) as its business, and everytime they...