Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mecham, a right-wing Republican elected last year, does face the prospect of losing his job. Some 227,000 Arizonans have already signed petitions for a recall election, 10,000 more than required to put the issue on ballots. But when the letter backfired, leading to more recall signatures, Mecham claimed he had never seen it; a machine had been used to sign his name. Bill Long, chairman of Mecham's campaign finance committee, dismissed the ruckus, noting that the words were just "standard conservative rhetoric...
...House game plan for the setback on the Bork nomination. "The slippage we've seen is a reflection of the strategy of trying to change this guy into a friendly, bearded moderate," says Kevin Phillips. Indeed, since the summer, the Administration has countered charges that Bork is a right-wing zealot by depicting the judge as an open-minded centrist. Bork portrayed himself in the same light during his five days of Senate testimony last month. But in the process, he revised or backed away from some of his more conservative stands on issues ranging from freedom of speech...
While the Reagan Administration set about painting Bork's record in neutral colors, right-wing organizations were instructed to tone down their pro-Bork campaigns. Some conservatives blame White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker for preventing the right from using "red-meat issues" such as school prayer, busing and the death penalty to rally support for Bork. "I'm not sure the public has any idea what Bork stands for," says Phillips. "I doubt Howard Baker has any good working overview of what's going on in America." Meanwhile, the anti-Bork juggernaut was allowed to monopolize the media...
...deliberate campaign of disinformation and distortion" that depicted the judge as an ultraconservative ideologue. Indeed, White House advisers say it was the President who made the decision to avoid a bloody ideological fight. "Ronald Reagan himself didn't want that to happen," says one aide. "But the right wing has never been able to accept that fact...
...recent days, Wright has accused Reagan of attempting to "torpedo" the peace process by making unrealistic demands of the Nicaraguans to appease "the extreme right wing...