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Haunted by that very possibility, some middle-of-the-road Republicans are trying to join forces with the Christian activists and perhaps moderate their demands. "A party big enough to elect a President is too big to agree on every single thing," insists G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour. Because they know that the religious right can still be a red flag for a good many voters, some candidates who have its support are playing down the connection. Though several of his regional coordinators are busy forming a Minnesota chapter of the Christian Coalition, even the hard-line Quist is careful...
...model prisoner at the Twin Rivers Corrections Center, with two exceptions: first, he opted out of a program for sex offenders -- since he would not be in jail long enough to complete it. More alarming was the art he drew in his cell -- "pornographic pictures of children," says Janet Barbour, Twin Rivers superintendent, "and pictures showing violence being done to children...
...Kemp, Bill Bennett and Jeanne Kirkpatrick are beginning to get the picture. Their organization, Empower America, picks up where Kemp's verging-on-visionary HUD left off, devising free enterprise solutions to social dilemmas. Ventures like, that will do far more for the Republican Party than RNC chair Haley Barbour's Perot-modeled National Policy Forums. Activist conservatism is the future of the party...
...proposed tax hikes, Hutchison cast the election as a referendum on the Administration. Krueger obliged by voting against Clinton's budget levels. "Democratic candidates will look at Krueger and see that he ran from Clinton like a scalded dog and still couldn't get away from him," said Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Said Texas' other Senator, Republican Phil Gramm: "If Bill Clinton and Ann Richards can put a pretty face on this devastating defeat, they ought to be morticians instead of politicians...
...committee member from Yazoo City, and a Washington lobbyist, Barbour, 45, was conservative enough to serve as a Reagan adviser but smooth enough to attract the support of country-club Republicans anxious to check the influence of the religious right, whose delegates favored former Missouri Governor John Ashcroft or party tactician Spencer Abraham. Rather than flock under ideological banners, however, most of the R.N.C. members avoided ideology. The loudest applause of the day came when Rich Bond, the G.O.P.'s retiring chairman, urged that the 1996 platform drop its strict antiabortion plank...