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Parody in escalating rhetoric, Mccain denounces reagan BOLD ATTACK ON "BADthings" Maverick Takes Aim at 1980s, Tax Cuts, Defense Build-Up By Richard L. Berke SIMI VALLEY, Calif., March 28 —...
...McCain's speech was warmly received, McCain backer William J. Bennett said the senator may have "gone overboard" in his prepared remarks when he called former first lady Nancy Reagan a "dried-up old...
...McCain is deeply reluctant to make any reference to his years as a Vietnam POW, the maverick presidential candidate closed his bold speech here today with a rare anecdote drawn from the experience...
...While Mr...
...Even though the 1976 election was several years away - indeed, even though President Ford had not yet taken office - I knew that the assault against his visionary leadership of moderate Republicanism - an assault undertaken by Reagan and his far-right allies -was an assault which I would gladly fight with every fiber of my being, fiber by fiber if necessary...
...McCain took direct aim at one of the undisputed icons of the Republican Party, which political observers say has been dominated by Falangist elements since Mr...
...McCain's speech was the latest in a series of carefully crafted moves aimed not only at reinforcing the candidate's maverick image but also at boldly advancing a "grand realignment" within the GOP itself...
...More recently, Mr...
...Parody in escalating rhetoric, Mccain denounces reagan BOLD ATTACK ON "BADthings" Maverick Takes Aim at 1980s, Tax Cuts, Defense Build-Up By Richard L. Berke SIMI VALLEY, Calif., March 28 — Continuing his bold campaign to purge the Republican Party of what he termed "the forces of reaction," Senator John McCain once again ventured into the belly of the beast today, traveling to the Reagan Presidential Library in this picturesque hilltop town to denounce President Ronald Reagan as an "amable dunce who couldn't find his ass with both hands...
...Casually, as if by accident, the captor threw a button at his captive's feet...
...It is time - no, my friends, it is past time -to return this party to the principles of its foots," said Mr...
...McCain said...
...McCain...
...Standing in the prison yard under the pitiless sun of noonday, the prisoner was approached by one of his jailers," Mr...
...We're the party of Wendell Willkie, not Lauch Faircloth...
...Reagan's election in 1980...
...Whatever...
...The speech was followed two weeks later by an elaborate wreath-laying ceremony at the grave of Elliot Richardson, where Mr...
...In late February, Mr...
...The prisoner strained his eyes to make out the words...
...And then he saw them: 'Re-elect Ford in '76.' "My friends, the prisoner knew at once that this gook was onto something...
...McCain delivered a bold speech against the evangelical leaders Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson in Virginia...
...Although aides say Mr...
...McCain wept openly...
...McCain has campaigned wearing a "Free Mumia" bandanna wrapped around his head...
...The fact is, we are the party of Nelson Rockefeller, not Heinrich Himmler...
...Aides said Mr...
...Speaking to an enthusiastic audience of 3,000 journalists, reporters, editors, writers, and columnists - who the maverick presidential candidate said represented the "diversity and inclusiveness of our crusade" -Mr...
...Or maybe the foots of its principles...
Vol. 5 • March 2000 • No. 25
