Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael S. Dukakis' major campaign failing has been his inability to counter Vice President George Bush's charge that his liberal values are "out of the mainstream" of American politics...
...American Civil Liberties Union during the first presidential debate. Voters were left to wonder whether Dukakis did believe in the elimination of movie ratings and free press for child pornographers. Such thoughts play into Bush's hands as he tries to portray Dukakis as out of the mainstream on economic, military and moral issues...
...Dukakis is the one who should be best able to prove his opponent is out of the mainstream. This summer, working as a research intern for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, I examined hundreds of House of Representatives votes on major issues and the corresponding administration's positions. I found that if Reagan and Bush were in the House of Representatives, they would be among its 10 or 20 most conservative members...
...specific votes show exactly how far out of touch with the mainstream Bush is. In 1986, the administration's budget proposed cutting student financial aid by $20 billion over a period of four years. There was bipartisan opposition to this measure. The administration also backed an amendment to the Department of Education appropriations bill that would have cut education funding by more than $800 million. The majority of voting Republicans rejected the amendment...
When Dukakis criticizes Bush's selection of Sen. Dan Quayle, for example, he doesn't stress that the Indiana Senator voted against civil rights legislation, child nutrition programs and the INF treaty. He doesn't mention that Quayle is as out of the mainstream as you can get. Instead, Dukakis tries to showcase Quayle's paltry experience and portray Bush's selection of him as incompetent...