Article: The sultan of the suburbs: Spiro Agnew is gone, and the wedge politics he honed aren't cutting it for the GOP this year.(Obituary)

Spiro Agnew is gone, and the wedge politics he honed aren't cutting for the GOP this year

SPIRO AGNEW IS DEAD, AND BOB DOLE STILL doesn't know it. He doesn't know that what Agnew himself called "the politics of [polarization," which have worked so brilliantly for the Republican Party for the last 80 years, are played out with the swing-vote suburban "soccer moms"--and even dads. Agnew (with the help of speechwriter Pat Buchanan) labeled antiwar protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs." Dole (with the help of novelist Mark Helprin) calls young White House aides "a corps of elite who never did anything real, never sacrificed, never suffered." It's not ...

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