Word: moral
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...others disagreed saying the moral issue should not be a factor in the council's decision...
...conservatism of the future is positive and forward-looking: one that embraces openness in markets, foreign and domestic; one that rejoices in diversity and recognizes its dynamism and potential; one that affirms the role of the United States as a moral force around the world and encourages personal responsibility at home; one that heals wounds and extends the hand of friendship to all who love this country. That is our identity; that is the name we must...
...adds that to a moral conservatism that brought him a good many of the Christian conservative voters in Iowa, despite the support for Bob Dole of the state's Christian Coalition leader. One day after Buchanan took second place there, it was plain he had the front runner spooked. In a speech to the New Hampshire legislature, Dole, as steadfast an example of Republican orthodoxy as the party has ever produced, was suddenly Woody Guthrie. "Corporate profits are setting records and so are corporate layoffs,'' he said. "The real average hourly wage is 5% lower than it was a decade...
What Buchanan has discovered is the enduring power of the full populist litany: moral conservatism, rejection of political elites, fear of foreigners and--the one leg that Republicans have largely avoided--suspicion of concentrated economic power. In the late 19th century, populism arose out of economic upheaval, the rapid growth of large industry and powerful railroads that crushed small farmers and craftsmen. Their enemy was the "money power" of the Eastern establishment, the power of banks and big corporations. That and immigrants and the corruption of the political establishment. Sound familiar...
...eight-day challenge to the candidates' cleverness and conscience, a fight not only with one another but with themselves. They have to outflank the enemy; but they must also decide how far they are willing to go to win, and that is less an intellectual challenge than a moral one. If they gain the whole world at the cost of their own souls, the battle for New Hampshire will haunt them whether they win or lose...