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...GARY BAUER Church Lady's mosh-pit attack on Keyes backfires; campaign sags; time to go back to direct mail...
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...Reform Party--that great untethered life raft for political misfits--the Republican Party has been missing a certain something. George W. Bush and John McCain are tediously moderate, and the alternatives have sometimes seemed a self-negating rack of eight balls. But last week, as Orrin Hatch quit, Gary Bauer joined Pat Boone in the Unhip Hall of Fame and Steve Forbes seemed suddenly passe, Alan Keyes was poised to become the new leader of the American fringe...
Given his passion, not to mention his bold leap into an Iowa mosh pit and the nationally televised exchange with Bauer on the morality of the decision, Campaign Diary caught up with Keyes at Applebee's in Manchester, N.H. The Maryland resident was just settling into a booth in the Elvis Presley Boulevard corridor of the restaurant, and as if to affirm our sense of him as a potential spoiler, staff phones rang incessantly. The Ollie North radio show wanted him. CNN's Crossfire had to have him. Rush Limbaugh listeners said Rush had him finishing third in New Hampshire...
...politics, friends say they expected him to be a thinktank policy guru or a professor of political science--a job Keyes says he may eventually consider--rather than a presidential sideshow. Die-hard Keyes supporters--as such people always do--have an intricate, domino theory detailing a Keyes win: Bauer, Hatch and Forbes will drop out, and their supporters will turn to Keyes to form a solid conservative block. Then, once Bush's supporters see a conservative candidate with a substantial following, they'll question whether Bush is such a foregone conclusion and move toward Keyes. But though Keyes' third...