Word: robertson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even in distressed Genesee, however, the Republicans have made converts. Pat Robertson made one of his strongest showings here during last year's Republican nominating fight. In the process, he lured many charismatic Christians into Republican ranks. Charles Siglow, 31, a charismatic, recently went back to work at Buick after an eleven-month layoff. But he believes Dukakis to be "an ultra, extreme liberal...
Sometimes candidates find creative ways to use soft money. During the primary season, for example, wealthy individuals gave some of their soft funds to independent foundations set up by Jack Kemp, Bruce Babbitt, Pat Robertson and Gary Hart, who were campaigning for the presidential nominations. The foundations used the money to produce position papers on the issues for the % contenders...
...Administration foreign policy hard-liners as Elliott Abrams and Richard Perle, Commentator Patrick Buchanan, and even Sylvester Stallone (who taught at a girls' school in Switzerland while the Commies were being beastly to his fantasy alter ego John Rambo). A similar Quayle-like controversy also surrounds the Rev. Pat Robertson, whose father, a Senator, may have helped him avoid combat in Korea...
SILLIEST RHETORIC. Pat Robertson's denunciation of the French Revolution and his depiction of the A.C.L.U. as something akin to a terrorist organization...
...found he had the same problem getting Bush to give up in 1980, to withdraw from the presidential race in time to position himself as a vice-presidential candidate. Bush does not yield easily, something he proved in his scrappy comeback after finishing behind both Robert Dole and Pat Robertson in this year's Iowa caucuses...