Word: wings
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Judging by the doctrinaire platform going before the Republican Convention this week, the conservative coalition that Ronald Reagan constructed 12 years ago seems as robust as ever. Just below the surface, however, the right wing suffers a mid-life crisis that threatens its future -- as well as the party's. The movement lacks an inspirational leader, a unifying cause and an external enemy big enough to outweigh its internal divisions...
...right. "There's an amazing disconnect," says one of Bush's top campaign advisers, "between the President and conservative leaders. They can't forget that he didn't come out of their movement the way Reagan did." Nor does Bush get much respect for his vigorous pandering to right-wing concerns...
...regional base and conservative fiscal credentials but may suffer from the perception that he has cuddled up too snugly with the party establishment. James Baker is even more alien to the wingers than Bush. Baker would have a shot at the 1996 nomination only if parts of the right wing got so disgusted with the G.O.P. that they bolted to form a new party. Given the fractious mood, and the strong appeal of Ross Perot's aborted candidacy, that old idea could become reality after...
Historically, the American Bar Association has been a conservative group led by men in pinstripes and wing tips. But at this year's annual convention in San Francisco, the lawyers' group took a distinctly liberal turn. On Sunday, Hillary Clinton, who until 1991 chaired the A.B.A.'s commission on women, paid tribute to one of the profession's most recent female celebrities, Anita Hill. "All women who care about the equality of opportunity, about integrity and morality in the workplace, are in Professor Anita Hill's debt," said Clinton, a corporate lawyer. Hill received an award from the A.B.A...
...Bush had been suspected of harboring pro-choice views for years, but she never before said it publicly to avoid unnecessary skirmishes with the Republican Party's conservative wing. Coming the day after the Fitzgerald boomlet, the pronouncement's timing was curious and set off a round of political speculation. Some thought the abortion comment was an attempt to change the subject from the infidelity flap. Others believed that G.O.P. campaign officials were attempting to have it both ways by having Mrs. Bush woo independent and Republican women who find the party's pro-life platform unrealistic...