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...Schlesinger did not beat a path to employment inside the Beltway after his graduation--if anything, he prepared himself to remain firmly entrenched in academia...
...argued for the importance of bi-partisanship, an ideal he followed before it had become a Beltway buzzword. He seemed more like a professor than politician during Congressional hearings. And he was attacked for speaking his mind and not simply playing games of political networking...
...call yourself a reporter!" huffed the Kingfish. "He's the host of Imus in the Morning, a radio show that mixes interviews of big-time politicians and media stars like Tim Russert and Jeff Greenfield with sophomoric satire and juvenile racial humor. The inside-the-Beltway crowd worships and fears...
These developments have some Beltway types doing a double take. Can Bush, only recently anointed as the golden boy of the religious right, afford to cozy up to this wing of his party? The answer, so far, is a qualified yes. In fact, some polls now show Bush with as much as a 10-point lead over Vice President Al Gore, thanks in large part to the Texas governor's skillful disengagement from the orbit of Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition, forces he was pressed into befriending by the insurgency of primary opponent John McCain. But whether he could...
...style, a "very fortunate man" before announcing the decision he'd leaked hours before: "This is not the right time for me to run for office." None of that matters anymore to the Republican kingmakers who'd been counting on him to beat Hillary all the way back to Beltway. They're left standing in the ring without a fighter, and they've got until the May 30 state GOP convention to turn Long Island's Rep. Rick Lazio into a contender...