Word: panderer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first candidate to use the words of his opponent's challengers in the primaries, replaying what they had said as they considered the horrific prospect of Barry Goldwater's ascendancy. Does anyone doubt that Bush will find some use for Paul Tsongas' derisive description of Clinton as a "pander bear...
...dressing down members of the militant gay group ACT UP in New York last month for misstating his record, Clinton last week pledged that someone infected with the AIDS virus will speak to the nation during the Democratic Convention in July. Bush campaign officials chortled privately at this gimmicky pander, happy to see Clinton on the verge of alienating Southern evangelical Christians...
...before Bush's feigned distress. Minutes after Bill Clinton won the New York food fight last Tuesday, Republican Party chairman Rich Bond gleefully recalled Jerry Brown's characterization of Clinton as "the prince of sleaze." They've "got them all on tape," says Bond. "Paul Tsongas calling Clinton a 'Pander Bear'; Ed Koch saying, 'It happens that Bill Clinton has no credibility'; Mario Cuomo calling Clinton's middle-class tax cut 'a joke.' We've got 'em, and you'll be seeing 'em. It ain't gonna be pretty...
...wonder the last few administrations have been insensitive to the poor, when successful presidential candidates must either be wealthy themselves or pander to rich special interest groups in order to survive the campaign process...
PAUL TSONGAS (+2) All he lacks is charisma, which Clinton has in excess. Drawbacks: He doesn't need the job, and who could ever forget "Pander Bear...