Word: alan
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...With McCain and Bush running neck-and-neck in the Arizona polls, it was left to the other four candidates to divide the also-ran spoils - Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes by trumpeting their conservative credentials, and Orrin Hatch by emphasizing his experience. Clearly, though, some pollster has told all the Republican hopefuls that congeniality is the flavor of the month, and their affability was at times almost comical - Forbes told Bush to call him "Steve," McCain told the Texas governor to call him "John," then later complained of not knowing whether to call Bush "George...
...Harvard students watching last Thursday's debate at the IOP told a pollster they were most impressed by McCain, though they also gave a thumbs-up to Alan L. Keyes '72 and Bush...
...also demonstrated a strong command of the issues with detailed proposals and considered positions. Bush, on the other hand, failed to defend adequately his tax cut under attacks from Forbes and others. Most of the other candidates failed to distinguish themselves from the crowd, despite a valiant effort from Alan L. Keyes...
Despite its lack of substance, at least the debate afforded some moments of levity. The funniest line went to McCain who said that if Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan was to die while he was in office McCain would "do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's': I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him, and keep him as long as we could." It's a good thing at least one of the Republican candidates has his finger on the pulse of the American people...
...solutions. On Thursday night Forbes will almost certainly inform debate watchers that Bush tried to raise some taxes in Texas, that he allowed spending there to increase "a whopping 36%" and that he isn't committed to the fight against abortion--an opinion that social conservatives Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes will loudly second...