Word: panderer
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...then there is Bush's pandering, which has received much less attention than Clinton's. At least Clinton's pandering doesn't involve actual policy decisions. One Bush aide even admitted last summer that the Bush campaign was "going to deserve a gold medal in political gymnastics." Still, the pander isn't a new tactic for Bush. His worst example remains his completely unprincipled reversal on the issue of abortion. Before signing on with Ronald Reagan in 1980, Bush was pro-choice...
Paul E. Tsongas called Bill Clinton the "pander bear." New York Times columnist Russell Baker called George Bush the political Santa Claus--sending jobs programs and Taiwanese contracts down the chimney...
...Candor Pander. Never trust anyone who begins a sentence, "My dear friends, let me speak frankly to you . . ." Veracity these days is rare enough that its presence need not be advertised with self-congratulatory words like "candor" and "honesty." For while the truth may still set you free, it remains a treacherous path for those who would rather be elected than liberated...
...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...