Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Congress can be instrumental in promoting right-wing policies, its has every right to do its will. When it serves as a check on such policies, however, it becomes the great usurper. Supposedly, Americans are committed to the primacy of the political process. Policies obtain legitimacy, any school boy could tell us, not because they are intrinsically right, but because they were approved through the proper constitutional process. The far right, then, for all its pretenses to patriotism, represents nothing less than a basic rejection of American constitutionalism...
...shot candidates Kemp, du Pont and Robertson need their support to stay in the race. Trailing far behind Bush and Dole in name recognition, money, organization, poll support and credibility, these "flanking" candidates have little chance unless one of them becomes the sole darling of the G.O.P.'s right wing. Du Pont, a onetime moderate who is now a born-again right-winger, got a boost in this direction last week from the endorsement of the conservative Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader...
...former NATO commander and Reagan's first Secretary of State, Haig may be the most credible of the treaty opponents. Never a darling of the right wing, he skips anti-Communist boiler plate and stresses geopolitical concerns: that eliminating Euromissiles will heighten the Soviets' overwhelming advantage in conventional forces; that denuclearization of Western Europe , could weaken the NATO alliance; that the treaty fails to address the need for cuts in the Soviets' arsenal of ICBMs. In 1981 Haig argued for a deal that would leave each side with a reduced number of missiles. When he lost that argument, he dutifully...
...held by the hastily formed Anti-Appeasement Alliance. "If this treaty is ratified," declared Archconservative Howard Phillips, "a major battle of World War III will have been lost by default" -- a dire prediction that suggested Reagan was correct in his assessment. Phillips went on to viciously condemn the right wing's onetime standard-bearer. Reagan, he fumed, "is a very weak man with a strong wife and a strong staff. He has become a useful idiot for Soviet propaganda." Dole and other Republican Senators also lashed back: Dole chided the President in the White House, while on the Senate floor...
...week the two meet to sign a historic arms treaty. -- A look at the evolution of the zero option, from hard- line proposal to reality. -- Raisa and Nancy will get together for coffee, but they won' t like it. -- Everyone seems to support the agreement -- except the Republican right wing. See NATION...