Word: tented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyway, the motif of family values kept recurring along the Ik-Idaho Road. The Republicans conjured it up and turned it to powerful political effect. Their show in Houston was gaudy and complex -- a hellfire tent meeting dissolving to a '50s television sitcom with flags and confetti and sometimes tinny modulations...
...Houston were pummeling moderates who had sought to soften the party's rigid pro-life platform position. The pro-choice faction had been led to believe that they would get at least a token concession, a sign the party would lean at least a little toward the "big tent" concept its late chairman, Lee Atwater, had formulated. But the platform drafters not only flattened the pro-choice faction; they also took a hard line against gay rights, gave short shrift to environmentalists and called for an indefinite moratorium on new business regulation. Donald Devine, one of the many right-wing...
Appearances seems to support the stereotypical image of the Republicans party as the antithesis of diversity--a bastion of rich, self-interested whites. At own convention last month, the Democrats capitalized on that image, presenting themselves as the Big Tent, the party of and for minorities...
...touch with ordinary Americans. The New Presidential Elite argued that Democrats under McGovern were more interested in ideological purity than in winning, more concerned with being "correct" than with being inclusive. It was a party of rectitude and litmus tests. By contrast, the Republicans spread a big tent: "Less intense, less holistic ideologically, and deeply attached to party, the cultural conservative focused more on building party unity and winning elections than on articulating correct issue positions -- not because he was uninterested in policy, but because he was also strongly attached to the party by fun, friends, and status satisfactions...
Perot did seem to send his followers a signal about what direction they might take. He spoke about having been impressed in recent weeks by a "revitalized" Democratic Party. And that was even before Clinton's acceptance speech, which adroitly pitched the Democratic tent in the middle- class backyard. The President appears to have noticed too; he spent the week fishing -- but at the Wyoming ranch of Secretary of State James Baker, the Bush campaign chairman in 1988 who may sign on for a repeat engagement...