Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Simon has been slow to adopt the maxims his chief opponents have deployed so effectively with voters in New Hampshire and lowa: cardinal rules like, "don't tell people you will raise their taxes even if it is for the nation's good," "say you'll protect American products, even though you know it will lead to a trade war," and most importantly, "don't get too emotional about America's shortcomings because no one wants to here it, anyway." The couched language and disingenuous strategizing of Simon's prime foes, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Missouri Rep. Richard...
Cynics might sneer and say that Simon himself is a media creation--that his sheer abhorrence of political pandering and gregarious glad-handing belies an image-conscious campaign in its own right. And doesn't that fact say a lot about the state of American politics today...
...dismissal of Simon as just another image from a media consultant's blueprint is perhaps the most stupid failure of the so-called "genius of American politics." It seems that when commentators talk about Simon they can't see his large programs for his bowtie. That commentators shallowly label Simon's call for a caring government a press-office creation after eight years of Reaganomics is shocking. If we ever are going to end homelessness and racism and a thousand other social ills, we are going to have to refute that super-savvy sneerful kind of reasoning. Paul Simon...
...electable. Were it not for a few percentage points, Simon would be the "other candidate," who could provide the populist opposition to the smugly meritocratic, technocratic, vaguely bureaucratic, candidacy of Dukakis. As it is now, Simon possesses the range of traditional Democratic party constituencies: ethnics, dumped-on farmers, the elderly, and the working classes...
...qualified. Simon has the most Congressional experience of any candidate running for the Democratic nomination. His conduct throughout the campaign has been issue-based and on the point...