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Gramm imploded quickly, and the others who would make life difficult for Dole--Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes--were perceived as unserious crank candidates, but only eventually. Despite years of practice, Dole still couldn't say why he wanted the presidency or what he would do if he got it. "It's about us," he said. "It's about you. It's about America. It's about the future, which is where we are headed." The candidate seemed oblivious to the disbelief such inanities provoked. After most performances, he said, "You can feel it, can't you? It's working...
Viewers won't shed many tears. The Republicans' Stepford convention made for a spiritless, sadly anachronistic TV show. To their credit, the TV reporters tried hard to find blemishes in the happy face being presented, searching for any stray Buchanan delegate (or Buchanan himself) willing to complain. Usually, though, the displays of journalistic independence were pointless. NBC aired a few minutes of Kay Bailey Hutchison's speech on Tuesday night, then broke away so anchorman Tom Brokaw could summarize the juiciest lines for analyst Tim Russert ("She goes on to say that 'it's time to wake up to President...
...voters half to death. With delegates and platform further right, Would San Diego show the zealots' might? Well, no. Unbashed went lesbians and gays. And even Martin Luther King got praise. So strong was the control of this convention, Abortion went without a prime-time mention. Buchanan, though his speaking skills are stellar, Was bound and gagged and hidden in the cellar...
...from the tangled core of this predicament that Pat Buchanan's insurgency arose. Buchanan tried to mobilize blue-collar Republicans by speaking to their conservatism on abortion and sexual matters and to their anxieties about the economy. But the solution he offered them, protectionism, has almost no support within the upper echelons of his party. What G.O.P. leaders like party chairman Haley Barbour resented most about Buchanan was his threat to change the focus of their message from taxes to wages, a subject that makes the business wing uncomfortable...
...their relief, Buchanan was a self-canceling phenomenon. His protectionism turned off as many workers as it attracted. And coyly bigoted formulations had been embedded in his language for so long that his warnings against greedy corporate chiefs got lost in his self-produced clouds of static. But Buchanan's flourish was one more warning to Dole that his party is a breakable coalition, subject to passions its leadership can't always manage...