Word: loyalists
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...seat if the candidate is doing a pretty good impression of a cipher. But the nominee of the Reform Party isn't going to win anyway. Winning isn't the point of a third party. In others words--looking at this from the point of view of a party loyalist--nominating somebody other than Ross Perot means that we're going to split the check for the full meal even though no entrees were brought to the table...
Leaders from 15 political parties attended the program, titled "Managing Change in a Diverse Society." Among those in attendance were Northern Ireland nationalist parties such as Sinn Fein and the Social Democratic and Labour Party; loyalist parties such as the Ulster Unionist Party; and Irish and British political parties...
When Tom Daschle, the Senate minority leader, asked Kerrey to head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (D.S.C.C.), it was a downright curious choice. The job, which is to raise money for Democratic senatorial candidates, is usually reserved for a partisan loyalist. Kerrey, the only Medal of Honor winner in the Senate, was resolutely bipartisan and a conspicuous Democratic holdout on the President's 1993 budget. Daschle confesses, "I didn't know what to expect." Kerrey himself was divided (nothing unusual there): he was Bob Kerrey, Nebraska Maverick, not Bob Kerrey, Party Guy. But the situation was grim. The Republicans already...
...commissioner; in Manhattan. Bratton is credited by many for a remarkable 27% drop in crime. But Gotham gossip long suggested that his boss, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, resented the commissioner's media profile (including a TIME cover) and independent nature. Bratton's successor, fire commissioner Howard Safir, is a Giuliani loyalist...
...Washington, and more particularly Congress, in such foul repute in the first place. As things stand now, mistrust is growing both among those who have yearned for Gingrich's revolution and among those it terrifies. "Everybody who thinks change will be bad for them is scared," says Gingrich loyalist Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform. "Everybody who thinks change will be good for them doesn't believe it is going to happen...