Word: platformization
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...Dole had not moved at all. Of course by then, like Hurricane Bertha, Dole wasn't done shattering windows and scattering debris. Within 48 hours, he started all over again, telling CBS News that he would, if elected, "probably" veto the ban. A day later, Dole issued long-awaited platform language on abortion that reaffirmed the party's strong antiabortion plank just a month after he promised to temper it. By Friday the irresolution on assault weapons looked less like a mistake and more like a pattern...
Chinese divers Sun Shuwei and Fu Mingxia are poised to repeat their 1992 victories in men's and women's platform, respectively; Fu is favored in springboard as well. Mark Lenzi of the U.S., the springboard winner in Barcelona, ended a 20-month retirement to defend his title...
...this, I mean a president who has clear and spelled-out convictions, one who has a sense of direction and purpose. We need a president with a mission, who is not afraid to disagree with those who are not serving the country's interests. The candidate must have a platform, a plan for the future of America, not just fancy words for TV sound bites; the candidate must deal in specifics. Instead, alas, what we are being presented with are the usual tailored-for-election candidates whose only immediate objectives are to emerge victorious on November...
...recent plea for "tolerance" and "civility" in the abortion debate, Dole got tolerance and civility off to a shaky start by accusing the Democrats of "hard-line views" and "extremism." Certainly nothing in the Democratic platform is as hard-line and extreme as the Republican call for executing abortion patients. But Dole wishes to make much of an episode at the 1992 Democratic Convention that has achieved mythic status in the abortion debate...
...publicity, Dole's for a foil. Bauer, an acolyte of James Dobson's, whose Focus on the Family ministry reaches millions of the faithful every day on 2,000 radio stations, took Dole to task for moving his declaration of tolerance from the preamble of the party platform, where it would apply to a variety of issues, to the antiabortion plank. But just in case this micromovement was too tiny to register with women voters, Dole also took out after Bauer, head of the pro-life Family Research Council. "I don't know where these people come from, you know...