Word: punditizing
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could expect a Harvard section to remain quiet," said perennial Cambridge pundit Glenn S. Koocher...
...sizzling fight has every pundit arguing over who's really a liberal, who's a centrist, but a close look at their ideas suggests that the Bradley-Gore race is not a neat ideological battle. Virtually any proposal comes with a disclaimer, as Bradley's did last week. The principle that all families should have a chance for a better life, he said, "is not a liberal principle or a conservative one. It does not belong to any political party." So as Bradley and Gore prepare to meet this week for their first debate, voters will need to be listening...
...ready for a spell of demagoguery. The question is both wrong and arrogant--Russia was never ours to lose--and the real issue is what to do now. But it's already a pundit's dream topic, since it's more fun to lay blame than confront facts and complexity. The "Who lost" phrase is custom cut for G.O.P. presidential contenders to score points against Democratic candidate Al Gore, tagging him as the front man in the Clinton Administration's "failed policy." Capitol Hill is aboil with hearings, beginning this week, aimed at flogging the Administration for everything that...
...Reform party is split between those who relish the taste of populist bile in their mouths and those who believe the party can one day gain the influence to help fix what is broken in American politics. The first half has hailed pundit-cum-politician Pat Buchanan with a lusty come-aboard; the latter group, led by grappler-turned-governor Jesse Ventura, has begun to throw candidates at the would-be GOP ship-jumper, in the hopes that someone else ? anyone else ? will carry the Reform flag toward higher political ground, and not downhill. Someone who will help keep...
...Buchanan, who makes such a fine meal of the scraps of the Republican and Democratic feast as a pundit ? but precious little as a wannabe pol ? wants to switch. The battle is on for the soul of Ross Perot's brainchild, and the question being asked by the more serious elements in the Ventura camp is whether Pitchfork Pat has a reformist bone in his body. "I haven't heard his political reform agenda," Minnesota Reform party chairman Dean Barkley told the Washington Post. "I still see him having that abortion issue and that social agenda on the front burner...