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One of the great delights of the quadrennial
intellectual experience we call the presidential
campaign is the way it enlarges our vocabulary.
There was "window of vulnerability" and "wimp" in
1980, and now in 1984 a new and delicious entry:
"pander."
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Goodman
Pander, for those of you who have been on
vacation the past two weeks, is not the name of a
rare black-and-white bear living in the mountains of
China, Not unless you say it with a Boston accent.
Pander is a political name as in "sticks and
stones will break my bones, but names will hurt my
image." It has stuck for the moment to the personage
of one Walter F. Mondale.
In the process of choosing a running mate out of
the Democratic rainbow coalition, Mondale has
been accused of "pandering" to blacks, women and
Hispanics. Mondale was "accused" of this crime, first
by a candidate for the job (Hart) and then by
opponents (Republicans) and finally by analysts
(the media). When a candidate is "accused" of
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dictionary. ,
The Oxford American defines "pander" as a verb
meaning "to gratify a person's weakness or vulgar
tastes" As a noun, panderer is the word for a pimp
fcr, more benignly, a go-between in an illicit love
affair.
Of course, this literal definition of pandering
doesn't fit the current political scene. It is safe to
assume that Mondale was trying to pick, rather than
procure, a vice presidential nominee up in North
Oaks, Minn. It's safe to assume that he was not
trying to gratify a public "weakness" for blacks and
women in high places. Equal opportunity is, not
strictly speaking, a weakness or a vulgar taste.
But, in slang terms, the issue is whether Mondale
was trying to flatter and please women, blacks and
Hispanics in short, huge groups of voters. This
leaves open some intriguing questins .about the
linguistic relationship between politicking and
pandering;
Interviewing Wilson Goode, Dianne Feinstein, and
Henry Cisneros for vice president is not exactly the
same as kissing babies. But politicking is, by another
sort of definition, the business of wooing, listening
and responding. It's not for nothing that candidates
eat kielbasa in Hamtramck, bagels in the Bronx and
ribs in Dallas. It's not for nothing that they bowl,
chop wood, ride horseback and shake hands.
Candidates have to prove that they are one of us
while also proving they are better than us. Each
candidate walks the line between seeming aloof
from voters and groveling for votes.
The process gets pretty sticky. Pols can win the
outrage of groups who are ignored and the scorn of
groups who are courted too ardently. In Mondale's
case, the dilemma is expressed in another 1984
political wordset: "special interests," as in "pander
ing to the special interests."
The recent Minnesota parade admittedly looked a
bit like a First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and
Sixth of July parade. But the current notion that
blacks, women, Hispanics, unions, teachers, etc., are
special interests is weird. If you want to see a special
interest, I suggest you check out the oil lobby, the
Tobacco Institute and defense contractors.
There is something peculiar going on when Mon
dale's supporters are considered a special-interest
conglomerate, while Ronald Reagan's Three R coali
tion the rich, the right-wing and the red-baiting
are considered all-American. What's peculiar is
American politics, especially presidential politics.
American Presidents, it's been said, are both kings
and prime ministers. They represent the flag and a
delicate coalition of voters. The most successful
candidates simultaneously appeal to their constitu
encies while aiming above them. They make some
ideological link between self-interest and the public
interest. Those are the candidates we call leaders.
They're the winners.
Mondale's problem isn't that he's raching out too
hard for voters. Not at all. The problem is that he
hasn't yet reached above the voters. He's been a
better prime minister than king.
In San Francisco hell need the right words not
to appease the delegates but to lead them, not to
play to the voters but to act for them. Words are
always tricky in politics. But if you're looking for one
that's absolutely lethal, then this is the year that
"pander" bears watching.
C1S84, The Boston Globe Newspaper Connpeny
Washington Post Writers Group
Win or lose .
Continued from Pag 4
Therefore, the w y it appears, either Mondale and
the Democratic Party will reap the benefits now, or
they'll reap them later. Only if the Democrats win
the November general election will white women
reap the benefits; blacks and other colored people
probably will reap no benefits at all. These people
will have to chose between a man who is blatantly
against their interests, and one who may hand out a
few tokens of appeasement should he win in Nov
ember. IH let the reader decide which is whom.
Walter, you are to be congratulated. You've saved
the American two-party system for at least a few
more years. You've ensured the future of our "demo
cracy" and kept the White House just that.
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