Word: partisans
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...Defcon 2, no punches are pulled: the attacks go beyond dismantling an opponent's record and take on a nasty tone of derision. Right now, these rhetorical bunker-busters are mainly directed across the aisle - at front-runners in the other party in order to bolster one's own partisan bona fides. At the last Democratic debate, Joe Biden said that Rudy Giuliani was "the most uninformed person on American foreign policy now running for President." And in a blisteringly partisan speech to the Young Republican National Convention in July, Mitt Romney first compared Hillary Clinton to Karl Marx...
After playing in front of 18,898 partisan fans in the nighttime win against the Bears, Murphy said that the unfriendly crowd in Bethlehem shouldn’t be too much of an adjustment for Harvard...
...graduating seniors know that the line ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’ comes from the Declaration of Independence,” Andrews said. “It’s hard to turn that into a partisan issue...
Historically, politicians who deceptively promise to bypass the system or bridge the partisan divide disappoint. Actually governing as a Washington “outsider” isn’t a successful strategy. Jimmy Carter’s presidency is a good example. When Bill and Hillary Clinton challenged the establishment early in his presidency, it only resulted in a reshuffling of the “system” in favor of Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America (a mistake that the Clintons both learned from). Another president who liked to advertise himself as a Washington...
...Squire predicted that Leach would be “well-received” at Harvard because he “always managed to remain above the partisan fray” throughout his 30 years in Congress...