The Bootblack Stand
The Bootblack Stand Dr. George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election....
...and Lawrence D. Pratt feakn'es interviews with noted scholars, political leaders and journalists...
...That outcome was universally and correctly interpreted as a stinging repudiation of the liberal way of doing things in Washington and a mandate for moving the country back to the right...
...What is my legal remedy...
...Published in August, it focuses on the unique position of minority groups in the Congolese electoral process...
...In the wake of the 1968 election, Harris found his respondents choosing the designation "conservativ.e" to describe themselves by a 2,to-1 margin over the designation "liberal" - - 3 8 to 17 per cent...
...Such data, taken together, present a major opportunity to the Republican Party and the conservative cause...
...We may note as well the complementary fact that members of labor unions are more and more susceptible to conservative appeal on economic as well as "law and order" grounds...
...There is to begin with the fact that Richard Nixon and George Wallace in 1968, both running on emphatically antiliberal platforms, secured between them no Iess than 57 per cent of the vote...
...They speak out against these policies in Congress and before the media, and raise a storm of criticism in Republican and conservative circles...
...Address all correspondence to The Bootblack Stand, The Establishment, R.R...
...Harris and Gallup surveys likewise reveal a steady increase in explicitly conservative sentiment in the country...
...Dear Abzngorooni (M.C...
...I never truly believed you existed, for the name sounds so much like that of a now extinct cousin of the speckled rhinoceros of Java...
...GWP i i cal situation, the conservative leaders treated the President's initiatives to the left exactly as they would treat the same initiatives from a Democratic President...
...it can be purchased in all bookstores...
...Instead of accepting or actively defending such things as wage and price controls of the President's accommodation with Red China, they stir up a vigorous opposition...
...There are many other indices which show liberalism to be a declining political force, but a few examples will have to suffice...
...By behaving in that fashion, that is, exactly contrary to the way they are behaving now - - conservative political teaders could begin to salvage the conservative cause...
...Plunkitt has agreed to advise American i Spokesmen for the administration repeatedly talk as though the liberal-left were in the ascendant, and say that conservatives can do little more than fight a timid rear-guard action...
...The Alternative February, 1972 The Bootblack Stand Dr...
...Try working for a living...
...And isn't it pretty &?**Sing sexist to distinguish between the two...
...U Thant: I am not sure you have a legal remedy...
...Incidentally, have you ever served in the Congolese Parhament...
...If the acknowledged conservative spokesmen persist in defending the President's every move, placating the rank and file and defusing conservative opposition, then a further leftward drift by the administration seems assured~ The repeated assertion that conservatives must support the President no matter what, is a method of binding them to the administration as it plunges ever further to the left to placate the ever clamorous left...
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...Plunkitt: If George Washington was the father of our country, who was the mother of our country...
...Right on, Bella Abzug, M.C...
...U Thant Ex-Secretary General of the U Nited Nations Dear Mr...
...Similarities exist even in your behaviors...
...Now, through this column, the distinguished Dr...
...Guests for the coming weeks include M. Stanton Evans, Prof...
...Dear Mr...
...There could be an entirely,different scenario...
...Much of the suburban population explosion involves member~ of unions, and an AFL-CIO survey in the late 1960s disclosed that no less than 50 per cent of the union's members now live in the suburbs, and that as economic status and place of residence have changed so have political attitudes...
...But let us assume you are talking about America in a very special way...
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...The key to this situation, above all else, is the attitude of conservatism's political leadership...
...At any rate, having established your existence, I still can only make a stab at answering your question, being unsure as I am of what you consider to be "our country...
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...GWP Dear Mr...
...To state the problem is to point the way toward at least a partial solution...
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...We may note, for one thing, the explosive growth of the suburbs and their army of homeowning, taxpaying voters who do not want handouts from government, but who do want restraint on government spending...
...Martin Diamond, Tom Huston, Senator Henry M. Jackson and Mayor Richard Lugar...
...Even New York has stringent laws against panhandlers...
...It is titled Escape...
...The wisest bit of counsel I can offer to you is to stop breaking the law...
...What if, in this hypothetilike studying the career of a legislator from the Republic of the Congo...
...It is reasonable to suppose that such continued and active opposition would succeed in mounting effective resistance to one or another such liberal policy and of kicking up a storm of public resistance...
...In the spring of 1970, Gallup 21 statesmen in this time of troubles...
...One such experience - - just one - - would be sufficient to make the White House conscious of the fact that it could not take conservative political leaders for granted...
...Reviewing your legislative career is found for the first time in 30 years that the self-designated conservatives in his poll results far outdistanced the self-designated liberals...
...Plunkitt: Ever since I left the hospital, the New York police have been harassing me every time I step onto the street...
...A New Demand Response System...
...The result of effective leadership could well have been a period of conservative and Republican ascendancy to match the Democratic era that followed upon the victory of Franklin Roosevelt...
...In Gallup's inquiry, the conservatives outstripped the liberals by a margin of 52 to 34...
...Instead, the net result of this adminisstration may be to frustrate for years to come the emergence of the conservative majority...
...But in fact we have much more...
...Even if such opposition did not succeed in defeating the measure in question, it would certainly make its acceptance difficult and generate problems for the administration...
...Which means that its next move to the left would be a lot slower in coming...
...What a groove to receive a letter from you...
...There is plenty of evidence to suggest such defeatism is unjustified...
...If we had nothing but that statistic to go on, we would have reason to believe that Washington's assumption of inevitable liberal victory is mistaken...
...Well then, the mother of your country is Gore Vidal and it is not at all sexist, conventionally understood...
Vol. 5 • February 1972 • No. 5
