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...smarmy coalition of Establishment Republicans, Democrats and newsies from left and right. I am an agnostic pro-choice woman living not a mile from Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs. There are no skinheads here. There is no hate here. The hate, venom and bile are inside the Beltway. I sent money to Buchanan this morning. You have helped me see the real error of my ways. CAROL WARD Colorado Springs...
...rules weren't posted, but Reed knew what they were. Pat Buchanan was permitted to call Bob Dole "Beltway Bob," for instance, but Dole was not allowed to call Buchanan an extremist. Bob Dornan was allowed to say anything he wanted to say, for the same reason your wacky Uncle Harry was allowed to say anything he wanted...
...sank directly into their veins, that the G.O.P. elders clutched their chests and began to howl. Word went out that Dole was running a distant third behind Buchanan and Forbes. G.O.P. leaders in Washington began making hand-holding calls to big contributors and found them in shock. When the Beltway Republicans reached the Governors, they found some so spooked they were thinking of peeling off and finding another candidate to back. Everyone wanted to talk to someone, anyone, inside the Dole campaign. "It was just awful," said a party paramedic who rushed to the scene by telephone. "Tuesday...
...seat on a prop plane to Dulles Airport. Bay Buchanan was on the flight, a picture of peacefulness with eyes closed on lift-off, knowing that below her Bob Dole and Lamar Alexander were grounded. Pat, who took off the night before, was already in South Carolina fulminating about Beltway betrayals...
...anxious economic nationalists for Buchanan, who invited angry Democrats in union halls to "join the party of greed" long enough to help him hijack the nomination. Even Lamar Alexander could claim to be a credible contender--the new safe choice--by being less mean than Dole and Forbes, less Beltway than Dole and Gramm and less disruptive to the party than Forbes and Buchanan. When Republican leaders talk of devolution, this is hardly what they had in mind. "This is beginning to look like a classic Democratic race," quipped G.O.P. strategist Bill Kristol. "This isn't going to help...