Word: termers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter, Milt knew the morning the photo came out showing he had switched his part from right to left and restyled his country thatch that Carter was a one-termer. "You never change your style so dramatically overnight while you are on the job," declares Milt. "It unsettles people. It indicates a vacillating nature." Pitts' rule of political hairstyling: get it right the minute you become serious about running and stick with the basic style...
...Republicans lost another incumbent just across the Mississippi River in Iowa. Like Percy, Roger Jepsen, 55, may have been hurt by rural economic problems; the farm-debt crisis is severe. But Jepsen, a conservative first-termer, had plenty of problems of his own doing. Last year he claimed congressional immunity to beat a Washington traffic ticket, and in June the born-again Christian was forced to confess that he had applied for membership in a Des Moines spa-cum-brothel in 1978. Nor was Jepsen always solid on matters of substance. In 1981, he trumpeted his opposition to the Administration...
More time would be granted to First-Termer Mondale, allowing him to rest his tired troops, gather his helpers and prepare his plans. But outside events rush forward even in the final, sweaty hours of the campaign. The opportunity to begin another chapter in the life of this nation will open next Tuesday night when one man or the other raises his arms in victory. The quicker he drops campaign politics the better...
...Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes is tops on NCPAC's list. Since April of 1981--when its pollsters detected some anti-Sarbanes sentiment in Maryland--NCPAC has been airing TV and radio ads reviling the first-termer as a do-nothing who loves to bus little children and fritter away tax money. Never mind that the iconoclastic Sarbanes has voted against busing legislation 29 times, or that he voted against the recent Reagan tax increases; the Senator, says NCPAC's Joe Stephen, is "a liberal in everything he does...
...onetime Reagan speechwriter who defeated four-term Senator Clifford Case in the 1978 primary only to lose the general election to Bill Bradley, spent nearly three times as much as Fenwick ($2 million, vs. $700,000) and accused her of being too liberal. Fenwick, 72, a pipe-smoking four-termer who has never lost an election, is an old-line Republican whose TV ads insisted that she "stands with Reagan." Her Democratic opponent will be Frank Lautenberg, 58, a computer-services executive who spent a million dollars of his own money on his first bid for public office...