Word: robertson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ROBERTSON. His advocacy of a higher birthrate to produce more taxpayers and thus solve the Social Security crunch...
...ROBERTSON. While campaigning in the Carolinas, he called for an end to subsidies for tobacco farmers...
...real contrast between Dole and Bush: the small-town entrepreneur vs. the no-fingerprints manager. Bush's strengths are in precisely those areas that elude Dole, such as organizational competence. That was evident on Friday in Michigan, where the Bush forces teamed up with Kemp's to outmaneuver Robertson at the Republican state convention. Bush wound up with 37 disputed delegates and Kemp with 32, while Robertson's supporters cried foul and walked out after getting only 8. Dole skipped the contest...
Lowballing. Some of Pat Robertson's organizers are employing a sly gambit to help their man in the Iowa expectations game. Supporters have been told to tell pollsters they might not attend a caucus. Since nearly all Iowa surveys , are discarding "unlikely attenders," Robertson will end up with an artificially low figure in the polls. Thus his finish on caucus night is more likely to produce a p.r. boost by being better than the polls indicated...
Road Warriors. Riding his campaign bus last week, Pat Robertson boasted to a San Francisco reporter that because he found the Washington Post's coverage so biased, he had banned the paper's correspondents from the bus. "But I just left a Post reporter," the journalist said. "I was sitting next to him." Robertson angrily summoned a press aide, who explained that the reporter on board, Bill Peterson, had not written anything offensive about the televangelist; it was T.R. Reid who had been blacklisted for his articles. "I don't care," Robertson retorted. "Get him off. I don't care...