Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...private and not-so-private asides to the party's right wing all year long, Bush signaled that he was far more conservative than his father ever was. But the party's right wing hasn't missed the most distinctive thing about the Bush team's ideology--it's lack of any to speak of. Aside from his notably conservative running mate, Dick Cheney, nearly everybody on most of the Bush short lists for a top position--from logistics-whiz Joe Allbaugh to international-law consultant Robert Zoellick--is an experienced Republican pragmatist. Yet Bush's aides have been sensitive...
...Pentagon, perhaps because everyone knows he will look first to Powell and Cheney on military matters. Already one top contender has withdrawn: with Powell's backing, Bush floated Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge for the spot, but Ridge withdrew about the same time that the G.O.P.'s right wing began to whisper out loud that the one-time Army artilleryman was soft on defense. Now leading the short list is retired Indiana Senator Dan Coats, a former Senate aide to Dan Quayle, whose selection would make the conservatives happier...
...first time since he began his slog for the presidency, Gore wasn't trying to convince people to like him; he was trying to persuade them he was right. And he wasn't trying to win their votes; he was claiming the votes he believed he had already won. So Gore finally lived up to his own billing: the candidate who is not afraid to choose "the hard right over the easy wrong," the fighter who doesn't shrink in the ring. The hard, joyless endeavor of winning votes had been "like crawling over broken glass," in the words...
Americans are right to feel that our political culture is infused with dishonesty. We are obsessed with fibbing about facts because this is less elusive than the real problem, which is intellectual dishonesty. This means saying things you don't really believe. It means starting with the conclusion you wish to reach and coming up with an argument. It means being untroubled by inconsistency between what you said yesterday and what you say tomorrow, or between standards you apply to your side or the other guy's. It means, in short, spin...
Journalists--truth seekers and cynics that we are--have no tolerance for spin. Right? Well, not exactly. The truth is that journalism has bought into the spin culture. Getting spun is flattering, like being seduced, or like being admitted to the club. And if politicians didn't spin, reporters and pundits would have nothing to interpret and act knowing about...