Word: patly
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...exit of Falwell plainly ends the initial era of the Religious Right and quickens speculation on its prospects in the next phase. Even as Pat Robertson escalates his evangelically inspired presidential bid, recent tidings seem to amount to a threnody of waning influence for the movement. Television ministries have had a particularly rocky time. The Contribute or Else I Die campaign of Oral Roberts disgusted many Americans as well as his own church, which ruled last month that Roberts' status is not, and never has been, that of a United Methodist clergyman. Above all, the horrendous PTL scandal has harmed...
Meanwhile, the presidential campaign of Pat Robertson makes him the movement's new "undisputed leader," in the estimation of Political Analyst Kevin Phillips, who adds, "That's what he's running for." Robertson would dispute that. He calculates that winning the Republican nomination is "almost a done deal," in the words of an aide. A more plausible scenario, considering Robertson's stupendous negative ratings in some polls, is that he could capture just enough delegate strength to be a power broker between George Bush and Robert Dole...
More than ever in the age of Ronald Reagan, television smarts are required job skills for presidential candidates. The Republicans, like the Democratic candidates a few weeks earlier, were articulate, amiable, pat, well coached and sincere as all get-out. It should have been more impressive. Hubert Humphrey or Dwight Eisenhower or Lyndon Johnson would never have been able to compact his message into two minutes -- each was a rambler -- but they were abler politicians than this lot. When performance on television is the chief criterion, two preachers such as Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson, who have never drafted legislation...
Washington figures can be divided into those who have and those who have not developed the impervious veneer required by television -- that ability to duck an awkward question by talking about something else, the talent to pat-a- cake thoughts into little mouthfuls suitable for stopwatch programming. Of all the Senators and Congressmen on exhibit in recent televised hearings, Teddy Kennedy has the most undentable carapace. Many who watched the Bork hearings concluded that Kennedy and Utah's sycophantic Orrin Hatch vied in giving the worst performances. Yet Kennedy dominated the evening news coverage by crafting his wild charges into...
...ends for the Religious Right, as Jerry Falwell departs from Moral Majority and Candidate Pat Robertson looks to the future...