Word: platformization
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...spot. That's usually a sign that someone wants the job badly. But since then, Whitman, 49, hasn't merely closed the door, she has locked it. Whitman made herself unacceptable when she announced last month that she opposed not only the party's strict antiabortion platform plank but also a ban on partial-birth abortions. That pro-choice stance has made her anathema to party conservatives and puts her beyond Dole's reach. Not that she was a shoo-in to be a heartbeat away. Dole may have taken a dim view of Whitman's short political resume, which...
...ratings plunging to the mid 30s (a Wilson spokesman insists his boss's popularity is actually broader). At 62, Wilson is now looking toward 2000, as he demonstrated two weeks ago when, instead of supporting the Dole position, he repeated his opposition to the antiabortion plank in the party platform. Though Dole and Wilson (and their wives) were once close, the Senator now finds the Governor occasionally confusing. Wilson recently took Dole on a California trip that began at the gas chamber at California State Prison, San Quentin, and ended at Richard Nixon's grave. Dole aides are still ridiculing...
Dole's meeting was held in the aftermath of his campaign's cancellation of a much-publicized speech in Detroit this month where the outgoing Kansas senator was supposed to unveil his economic platform...
...Governors Weld, Whitman and Pataki, displaying either political principle or electoral pragmatism, have vowed to modify the platform to include pro-choice politicians like them. Weld is now pressuring the party to appoint new, pro-choice delegates to represent Massachusetts at the Republican convention this summer. He hopes to garner support for a more open, tolerant platform...
Weld, who fought to stop the Republican Party from opposing abortion rights in its convention platform in 1992, was shocked a week ago by the large number of abortion-rights opponents among the 1996 delegation...