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What is telling, however, is the way the Democrats seem to have papered over doctrinal disputes. Dukakis is the party's first postliberal nominee: he blends thrift, managerial skill, social tolerance and a nonbellicose foreign policy with the Democratic mantra of "Good jobs at good wages." By anointing Bentsen last week, Dukakis further complicated the game of pin-the-label-on- the-donkey. With his centrist, probusiness views, Bentsen is a preliberal, a throwback to the days of the Solid South, when Democrats were created by birth, not belief. Thus the party that ruled almost uninterrupted during the Great Liberal...
Perched in the best section of "old Bel Air" in west Los Angeles, 668 St. Cloud Road is the newly chosen site of Ronald and Nancy Reagan's post-White House home. In selecting the place, the Reagans wisely relied on the traditional real estate mantra -- location, location, location. But they chose an unusual procedure for acquiring their new homestead: they are leasing it from a consortium of about 20 friends and investors who purchased it specifically for the President and the First Lady...
Ideology is only part of the Republican message problem. Despite his forcefulness in Houston, Bush failed to articulate a compelling rationale for his candidacy. Far more glaring was Dole's discomfort with any substantive discussion, save for his mantra-like promises to provide "strong leadership." The danger is that Bush and Dole, in swatting away the far more ideological underdogs, will each be viewed as fitting the description from Henry Adams' 1880 novel, Democracy: "He had . . . a statesmanlike contempt for philosophical politics. He loved power, and he meant to be President. That was enough...
...images are a "reflection of your own mind considering challenges that you have been working on during the day." Delaney focuses that dream power with a technique called incubation: state the problem in a sentence or question and, once abed, keep repeating the sentence as if it were a mantra...
...Free traders, he says, "lack backbone." Joseph Biden uses the America's Cup races as a metaphor for the nation's standing, then declares, "To say we want to compete means we are already losing. I want to win!" Paul Simon attempts to offset his meek image with the mantra "We need someone with the courage to do the tough things...