Word: panderer
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...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...
Americans shout their standard litany for their uncharacteristic general distrust of the media. Like the government, the media is elitist. Television news reporters pander to the ratings. The media plays to public sensibility by displaying the fantastic, the outrageous, the lurid...
...small cadre of Dole friends and Senate staff members who have been doing a slow burn about the campaign's course. They call themselves the "Let Dole Be Dole Committee." They are among those who have heard Dole complain that the "campaign wants me to pander to everybody." It is they who suggested that Dole make a strong statement about race relations at the time of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March--an idea the campaign nixed, saying the topic was "too hot" to touch...
...tarnish the qualities of honesty, trust and the Midwestern grit that have got you this far. By refocusing your campaign on the true nature of leadership and Bill Clinton's failure to provide it, you can also unite the vast majority of Republicans. Better this approach than appear to pander, which is the antithesis of leadership and which amounts to little more than what Churchill called feeding the crocodiles. In the end they come after...