Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the bitter primary campaign, Hillary was called a conniving careerist eager to impose her communistic agenda upon the White House. At the Republican National Scarefest in Houston, Pat Robertson surmised that her goal was to sabotage the institution of marriage altogether. (That was right before he declared that feminists were really witches who want to kill their children...
...from the affairs of state, but it put plenty of money into Senator Jesse Helms' campaign coffers. Subjects on which many Americans have mixed feelings -- including issues of sexual and reproductive morality -- can easily be inflamed by politicians intent on polarizing the polity. Divide the country, former Nixon aide Pat Buchanan counseled his boss in 1969, and we'll take the larger half. The "Kulturkampf," he resciently observed, would be the conservatives' best friend...
...which sought to define homosexuality as "wrong, unnatural and perverse," went down to defeat, 44% to 56%. In Maryland voters approved a proposition guaranteeing the right to abortion. Iowa voters turned down an equal-rights amendment after a bitter fight that drew such national figures as Phyllis Schlafly and Pat Robertson to the state to lobby against...
...Religious Right. Championed by such figures as Buchanan and televangelist Pat Robertson, this group would return the party to a Reagan-era platform emphasizing tax cuts and aggressive deregulation of business to cure the economy and strict family values to salve the nation's social ills. The far right would go further, getting the government out of the workplace but into private homes, backing stricter laws against abortion, restricting the rights of homosexuals and widening censorship. Though these so-called cultural conservatives represent only a small fraction of the electorate, they are a powerful force in Republican politics and provide...
Despite their differences, nearly all the presidential aspirants are united on what it means to be a Republican. Du Pont notes that the party's factions and their presidential hopefuls are united by a common belief: "The single common denominator from Bill Weld to Pat Robertson is smaller government and economic growth." But selling that to the public may not be easy now that George Bush has presided over the largest deficits, highest taxes and biggest government in U.S. history...