Word: pander
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Despite bi-partisan approval of these measures, legislators on both sides of the aisle accuse the other party of supporting them in order to pander to voters...
...Bennett won't gladhand, neither does he pander. He frequently challenges his middle- and upper-class audiences, pointing out that men in the ghetto aren't the only ones walking out on their families these days. In a speech to the Christian Coalition, Bennett urged its members to avoid a "fixation on homosexuality" and instead turn their attention "closer to home," to the epidemic of divorce that poses a worse threat "in terms of damage to the children of America...
...point made by Lamm's wife Dottie, a devout Democrat and a friend of Hillary's who warned her husband that she doesn't want a Dole victory on her conscience. Formerly a Clinton supporter, Lamm himself has repeatedly blasted the President for breaking faith. "You choose to pander to America's special interests," he wrote in an editorial. "You are thinking more about your re-election than Chelsea's future...
...fanciful constitutional interpretation. It's basic 14th Amendment doctrine. To be sure, most Republican politicians would indignantly--and sincerely--deny that they wish to execute women who procure abortions. But that just illustrates that many of them support the antiabortion platform, not out of heartfelt conviction, but as a pander to an especially ardent interest group. Still, it's their language. Dole and others voted for it in the past, even if they fudge this time around...
...Wednesday, April 10, President Clinton vetoed a proposed abortion bill which would have served to ban late-term abortions known as "partial-birth" abortions. It is the position of the Harvard Republican Club that President Clinton's veto was both a revolting and extraordinarily callous attempt to pander to the far-left and extremist abortion proponents. This pandering serves only to protect Clinton from backlash from the left wing of the Democratic Party, rather than to protect the unborn from an egregiously gruesome form of death...