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...class. It says, 'Don't take my stock-market profits; don't take my golf bag away.'" Dole supporters? "The old Republican solid-citizens' club. They don't mind that Dole doesn't have new ideas, because they don't have new ideas either. They have old verities." And Buchanan? "He represents the not-happy-with-the-way-things-have-panned-out, blue-collar part of this coalition. They are headed for the exits...
Waiting for them there is Bill Clinton. Uncompromising pro-lifers will probably vote Republican in November even if Buchanan is not on the ticket. But the White House is confident it can lure away some of Buchanan's blue-collar support. "An audience for a Democratic Party that talks about rising living standards and a changing economy" is how pollster Stanley Greenberg, an adviser to the Democratic Party, describes them. "I believe those issues will be central to the President's campaign...
...Buchanan is a descendant of Scottish-Irish and German blood, and lived just about all his life in Washington, where, until 15 or 20 years ago, international cuisine meant tomato sauce on a plate of spaghetti...
...know. I mean, what I'd do with it, right? Got to get some new ideas and flesh 'em out. Not all at once. You can't do it in one big sermon. It'll come." Maybe so, but it hasn't yet. If it doesn't soon, Buchanan's verdict--"Bob's sooo boring"--will be the electorate's too, and Richard Nixon will be proved right once again...
...fell to the Great Polarizer to describe all this accurately. Dole's campaign, said Pat Buchanan in the South Carolina debate, is "vapid" and "hollow"--as the candidate demonstrated when he blew a particularly ripe opportunity last week. With Buchanan pushing his nativist protectionism elsewhere in the state, Dole toured the bustling BMW plant near Spartanburg, a symbol of South Carolina's embrace of the global economy. "It was a perfect chance to hit a home run for free trade and the interconnected world economy," says Governor David Beasley, an energetic Dole supporter. So what did Dole do? Nothing...