Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...separate at-bats in different innings, sophomore Mairead McKendry and junior co-captain Deborah Abeles sent blasts off the right-field fence that stayed in the park only by inches. There was a tremendous wind blowing in from right on that day at Soldiers Field, and without that wind, both McKendry's and Abeles's hits would have been home runs...
Governor George W. Bush should be helping Pat Buchanan out of the Republican Party rather than begging him to stay in it. In recent years, Republican primaries have witnessed candidates sprinting to the right to win the Republican nomination and then trying to move towards the center before the presidential election...
Because of his abnormally large lead so early in the primaries, Bush does not need to go towards the right and can offer the moderate republican image from the beginning of the race. In 1996, Bob Dole was stuck in a close race for the republican nomination with Pat Buchanan. Buchanan won the New Hampshire primary, in some respects forcing the Republican Party to adopt an extremely conservative platform...
Dole tried to counter his Republican opponent and soften his appearance by having pro-choice speakers at the Republican Convention, including New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman. But as Dole's defeat in the general election shows, Republican candidates cannot shuffle to the right early in their campaigns and then try to drift towards the center without offering the public confusing and hypocritical views of themselves. This time, Bush's lead in the polls allows him to run a cohesive campaign during which he can show the public a consistent and moderate image from the beginning of the campaign...
Reagan, the most recent icon for conservative government, advocated freedom. Buchanan opposes free trade and wants the government to close our borders. He speaks for a small percentage of the white right that the Republican Party should not worry about losing. Elections are won in the middle, not on the intolerant fringes of political belief...