Word: virtuecrat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McCaffrey, who saw combat in Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, responded to the Speaker's salvo with bemusement. He noted that the Administration is already doing nearly everything Gingrich demands, starting with a $178 million antidrug media campaign to be honchoed by none other than G.O.P. virtuecrat William Bennett...
...effects of marriage breakdowns on women and children have sparked the current bipartisan movement to shore up the institution of marriage and put the fault back in divorce. Two weeks ago, at a conference in Aspen, Colorado, Republican virtuecrat Bill Bennett spoke at a seminar of investors and media executives about the social scourge of divorce. "Don't just look at young black men or at women on welfare," he said. "We've got to look at ourselves. The middle class needs to set an example of standing by your family and your children and your commitments." The Masters...
...known as the natural-law argument against same-sex unions. This is the idea that marriage evolved in society over thousands of years as a childbearing union between a man and a woman, and that there is a profound wisdom in the tradition that should not be lightly discarded. Virtuecrat William J. Bennett contends that same-sex marriages "would do significant long-term social damage" to "society's most important institution." And that stretching the definition of marriage would jeopardize an already shaky institution...
Alexander was helped by the fact that as Forbes fell, he was the only alternative to Dole in the center-left side of the party. He immediately switched into a message-a-day mode, uncorking conservative virtuecrat Bill Bennett and his endorsement at a village bandstand in snowy, picture-perfect Milford on Wednesday and dusting off earlier proposals during the following days. For Forbes, whose buscapade pulled in across the Milford village green the same morning, the goal was some fast retrofitting. First came the required contrition for the slasher ads: "In business and politics," he said through a clip...
...that most nettlesome of campus issues. As president of the University of Pennsylvania since 1981, Hackney has handled a series of incidents that critics say reflect on his judgment and temperament. Conservative standard-bearer Patrick Buchanan puts it bluntly: "He is a politically correct leftist like Lani Guinier -- a virtuecrat, out of touch with Middle America...