Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Republicans lavished 37% on the upstart Pat Buchanan, an intensely focused right-wing commentator and old Nixon-Reagan speechwriter who uses ideas like ax handles. Those votes were less an expression of faith in Buchanan than an angry gesture directed at Bush, at his broken promises ("Read my lips: no new taxes") and at what many saw as his almost bizarre disconnection from the realities of American life, especially life in New Hampshire, which has been in an economic slump since 1989. At the end of the primary campaign, Bush showed up at a "town meeting" in Goffstown...
RONALD REAGAN was a natural burning bush, a candidate with a core of deep-set political belief and a particularly effective way of articulating them. So was John F. Kennedy '40. So, perhaps, is Pat Buchanan...
...Administration turned loose Vice President Spiro Agnew to lead the charge of Middle Americans, the Silent Majority, and speak against the war protesters. The truculent young speechwriter putting the words in Agnew's mouth was Pat Buchanan. He had Agnew delivering a sort of W.C. Fields line about "an effete corps of impudent snobs." Now candidate Buchanan prepares the rhetoric for himself...
...Pat even let us sit in on his intimate chat with Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith in their cozy dwelling. Don, as Pat explained, is in Albertville as part of a Presidential delegation dispatched to the Winter Games in the name of world harmony...
...another not too surprising event, Pat neglected to ask the couple what should have been the central question of the interview: whether the government is paying for them to attend the Games. And furthermore, who elected Don Johnson as a symbol of America...