Word: opportunistic
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Connally is an opportunist, and in Texas politics an opportunist invariably chooses the rough Democratic Party as the most convenient vehicle to political power. But Connally is not a man for labels, and party loyalty to him is not the irrefutable ideal expounded by his close friend and longtime mentor. Lyndon Johnson. His dedication to the Democratic Party is not, as Sam Rayburn once characterized his own loyalty. "without prefix, without suffix and without apology." Connally is one to seize on the most advantageous combination of power and people, and in this regard the Vice-presidency under a Republican President...
...only half-formed. He may be too honest and too open. His singular intensity seems sometimes to sweep him beyond the fine limits of good judgment. He ends up beyond any serious constituency, too strident on the war, too quick to embrace any dissenter, suspected finally of being an opportunist, without the relief of generating excitement...
...person, Sloan speaks quietly and intelligently of his war experiences, vainly attempting to sort them into some logical philosophical system. He realizes, however, that this war bows to no systemization. An opportunist, Sloan decided to profit as much as possible from Vietnam and soaked the corruption, bureaucratic idiocy, and brutality for whatever he could gain...
...would not be averse to striking some sort of accommodation with the Communist insurgents in the future. When and if he ever gets moving, Minh is expected to run much stronger than Ky, who styles himself "an ex-hawk turned dove" these days but is still basically an opportunist in search of a real constituency...
...simply false to imply-as this letter does-that all those who walked out of the 1069 SDS convention became Weathermen. Members of NAC and other radical groups were also among those who left. [It is unfair and opportunist-though not altogether surprising-that these people are all branded Weathermen-"crazies...