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...course, he's got a point. As every political science major knows by now, most pro-life Republicans aren't going to abandon the party in favor of, say, Buchanan, just to register a symbolic protest of Bush's vice-presidential choice. There'd be a few desertions, to be sure, but in general, political strategists shouldn't have a hard time convincing anyone that the time is right to show middle-of-the road voters that there's room in the GOP for social moderates - an approach whose potential benefits far outweigh the risk of leaving...
...well, in 1992--the party Perot founded had earned a phenomenal 19% of the presidential vote. In 1996, it still managed to win 8.5%. Lately, however, there have been problems. The party's star performer, Governor JESSE VENTURA of Minnesota, bolted earlier this year. The strange alliance between PATRICK BUCHANAN, from the right, and Lenora Fulani, from the left, has collapsed. So there was some relief when Perot decided he would not have his name placed on the ballot after all. That, however, doesn't end the party's woes. Buchanan is the lead contender for the nomination...
...seems clever and new at first--but it turns out it's nearly as common as, for instance, remembering the sacrifice of America's veterans. The half dozen Fourth of July columns that celebrate John Hart all sound exactly the same. Reform Party presidential candidate and conservative scribe Patrick Buchanan, on July 4, 1994: "Disaster struck 'Honest John' Hart first. Just months after he signed, British and Hessian troops invaded New Jersey, forcing him and his family to flee.... By the spring of 1779, John Hart was dead." Paul M. Morrill in the San Diego Union-Tribune on July...
...debate between Gore and Bush equals a hand of five-card straight poker, nothing wild, and maybe, just to make things duller, no aces or face cards in the deck. Add Nader and Buchanan, and all of a sudden you are playing night baseball, high-low, push-crunch, deuces, treys and one-eyed jacks wild. Sloppy, but more fun. I'll see your Quemoy, and raise you Matsu...
With Nader and Buchanan in the debates, the result would be impossible to predict. Both Nader and Buchanan speak from within consistent and coherent worldviews. And each runs for the presidency with, so to speak, the integrity of hopelessness. Fighting a lost cause sharpens one's opinions. Gore and Bush are inevitably corrupted by their hopes for the office; sheer expectation deadens their language...