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...Ronald Reagan Democrat, I was all for McCain in the 2000 campaign even as the Republican Party's upper echelon sank his efforts. But the traits that made me admire McCain's Straight Talk Express in 2000 are no longer apparent today. McCain lost my respect when he made a Faustian bargain to get the vote of his party's base. Having abandoned his critiques of the Iraq war and Jerry Falwell, the straight-talk candidate is just a shell of who he was eight years ago. Mary Elm, Chicago...
...insiders may think now. More often than not, winners in both parties reach out to losers-or at least contemplate an overture-when the time comes to put a broken party back together. John Kennedy tapped Lyndon Johnson in 1960, though the two men were like oil and water. Ronald Reagan named George H.W. Bush in 1980, though they never became very close. Walter Mondale gave a man he resented, Gary Hart, a good look in 1984, before choosing Geraldine Ferraro. And John Kerry recruited his former rival John Edwards in 2004, though the hard feelings on both sides never...
...Sorry" instantly became a fighting word in Australian politics. In 1998, a coalition of community groups declared May 26 National Sorry Day (it's since been renamed National Day of Healing). In 2000 an estimated 250,000 people joined a "Sorry" walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Sir Ronald Wilson, the former judge who authored the "Bringing Them Home" report, made impassioned pleas for a government apology, saying, "An apology begins the healing process. Apology means ... a willingness to enter into the suffering. It implies a commitment to do more...
DIED The man many republicans blame most for George H.W. Bush's reneging on his "Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge was Bush budget chief Richard Darman. As a top aide to Ronald Reagan, he was both an intellectual and a savvy technocrat. Yet the economist could be stubborn. After persuading Bush to reverse himself to reduce the deficit?a move that deeply damaged voters' trust and one that Bush called his biggest mistake?Darman maintained the error was tactical; the plan had just been badly presented. "I'm a long-term idealist and short-term realist," he said...
...favor of funding the troops, hoping for progress. As Iraq metastasized into a civil war, he began to vote for a responsible withdrawal. That Bill Clinton would turn this into an attack against Obama was almost as absurd as Clinton's turning Obama's statement that Ronald Reagan had changed the trajectory of the nation - and that, for a time, the Republicans had been the party of ideas - into a claim that Obama thought G.O.P. ideas were better. Clinton, after all, had said the same sort of things about Republicans in 1992. And he had been tougher on Democrats, decrying...