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The orchestra launched into "I've been working on the railroad" on a number of occasions, presumably because if Reagan gets elected, the trains will run on time. But for the GOP to have such a united convention last week, there must have been a unifying factor, one thing that...
Environmentalists, women, drivers, moderates and premature smokers beware: Ronald Reagan is coming to your town, equipped with the big Mo, the big stick and the big compact. This is one show that may not have a happy ending.
Equally controversial was the issue of abortion. Again rejecting the compromise wording, the right-wingers rammed through an endorsement of a constitutional ban on abortion. Many moderates were distressed by the changes. Bob Hughes, G.O.P. chairman in Cleveland, even saw omens of the Barry Goldwater debacle: "Shades of 1964?we...
Reagan has instructed party leaders around the country to recruit as many volunteers as possible without regard for their viewpoints. Ideological purity is not the price of admission to party affairs. Last month Reagan met in Chicago with a number of Republican Governors, a group that has not generally supported...
Is the opinion of GOP moderates anathema to conservatives? In an atmosphere of reaction, tacitly strengthened by public sentiment, it is. And as the moderates--who pose the greatest threat to rigid conservatism--are co-opted by this convention, the country's future dims. Amid the anti-Carter rhetoric that...