LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO about Barry Goldwater winning the Republican presidential nomination, about his acceptance speech, in which he stiffened his rightist position.
By Richard H. Rovere The New Yorker, July 25 , 1964P. 77 LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO about Barry Goldwater winning the Republican presidential nomination, about his acceptance speech, in which he stiffened his rightist position.
The real secret to her success, however, may be in her adroit scrambling of traditional leftist and rightist positions.
Those are rightist positions.
Because it enables him to seem much more right-wing than he really is, which is essential to retreating from obsolete rightist positions without incurring the wrath of primary voters.
In an open letter to Die Zeit, Heinrich A. Winkler, a professor of history at Berlin's Humboldt University, said, "Mr. Moller allowed himself to become party to an intellectual political offensive aimed at integrating rightist and revisionist positions in the conservative mainstream".
Perhaps in a nod of respect to their legendary parliamentary slugfests (and going against his zealous market principles), Mr Klaus is backing Mr Zeman, who is an old-guard socialist".Some politicians that define themselves as right-wing politicians, and that are perceived as rightist, are now in a position of supporting openly and strongly the leftist candidate," Mr Fischer said.
The vote came as Israel's rightist and religious parties started positioning themselves before an American-sponsored peace gathering expected to take place in Annapolis, Md., this month.
Mr. Sharon is seeking a veto on future concessions in any peace talks, and by entering the cabinet he would improve his position against his main rightist rival, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
He publicly grovels to win the approval of the rightist talkmeister Rush Limbaugh, and while positioning himself as the party's chief Obama critic, goes to a Britney Spears concert on the night of a presidential news conference.
When KMT leader Sun Yat-sen died in March 1925, he was succeeded by a rightist, Chiang Kai-shek, who initiated moves to marginalize the position of the communists.
