Word: arlen
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...more important than dollars or polls is the emerging sense that Buchanan is setting the pace in this race. He's the one with the resonant message; he's the one with the most passionate following, the true believers, who won't drift off to support Lamar Alexander or Arlen Specter if the weather changes in New Hampshire. And most telling of all, he's the one the other candidates have started to copy. Pat Buchanan is fast becoming the Perot of 1996, the maverick with a message who probably can't win but certainly won't go away...
...attempt to pre-empt a possible Jewish protest against Yasser Arafat is wholly uncalled for. Was there any staff criticism of black students' interruption of Charles A. Murray '65's Bell Curve lecture, either before or after the fact? Or of the disruptions of antiabortion activists during presidential candidate Arlen Specter's political address last spring...
Although Joshua Kaufman has clearly been sold on the "simplicity" of Senator Arlen Specter's postcard plan for income tax in America, his column ("Politics, Not Props," Sept. 25, 1995) reflects his failure to see through the gloss of Specter's Flat Tax Plan brochure (yes, it was glossy, too, just like all the others) and analyze Specter's spiffy graph and crafty doublespeak...
...late this summer while trying to catch up with the G.O.P. front runners, Wilson repeated that "only three of us can expect to raise the table stakes for the whole primary campaign." This meant that only he, Dole and Phil Gramm--and not Pat Buchanan, Richard Lugar, Lamar Alexander, Arlen Specter or Alan Keyes--could hope to raise the estimated $20 million needed for the nomination marathon. Yet his organization's own estimates put Wilson's total last week just above $6 million, in contrast to $17 million for Dole and more than $12 million for Gramm. TIME has learned...
...consider running against Clinton in their primaries. Powell, they reason, might give the party a better chance of retaining the White House. The White House reacted by scoffing at some Powell comments. Press secretary Mike McCurry derided Powell's left-leaning Republicanism by asserting, "I don't recall Senator Arlen Specter doing that well...