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...have virtually no flexibility to adapt to changing political conditions once they are selected, says Sanford. "They are instructed and bound more precisely than when they were bound and driven by the bosses." And the nominees they pick are more likely to be unrepresentative of the party's mainstream, as in the case of George McGovern, or a Washington outsider, as was Jimmy Carter.* Or both: witness Ronald Reagan...
Indeed, protests from the New Right had begun as soon as Reagan gave top Cabinet jobs to such mainstream Republicans as Alexander Haig and Caspar Weinberger. Then these men brought pragmatic moderates into the sub-Cabinet: Lawrence Eagleburger at the State Department and Frank Carlucci at Defense. Conservative Senators like Jesse Helms turned cantankerous, and the Conservative Digest publicly warned Reagan, "Your mandate for change is in danger of being subverted...
Michael J. Calhoun, vice-chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission, said last night at the Institute of Politics that Blacks must begin to confront economic realities or risk being "left further and further behind" mainstream America...
...course, Buffett cannot take full creative credit of responsibility for these thoughts. But the fact that he recorded a song with such a mainstream message seems to indicate that our man has finally gotten up out of his hammock, put down the rum punch and headed off on some serious thought waves...
While this mainstream acceptance of marijuana as our generation's drug of choice has occurred, our legal codes have been evolving at glacial speed to come to terms with the new mores. For most of us, lax enforcement of marijuana laws concerning small recreational amounts has induced an indifferent attitude towards the legalization and decriminalization of grass. It is only those for whom marijuana is a major aspect of their lives, the heavy users and dealers, who have organized, with the help of public-interest lawyers, into special-interest groups, comprising a lobby whose constituency is the nation...