Word: buchananism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effective way. Nor is Mitchell hearing answers from most of the Republicans running for President. But there's one exception, and that's why, on a crisp October evening, Mitchell drives to a hotel ballroom on the outskirts of town and listens to a former Nixon speechwriter named Pat Buchanan...
...When Buchanan barks that it isn't fair for "corporate chieftains" to get rich even as the wages of their workers stagnate, he seems to know what Mitchell and the 80 others in the audience are going through. They nod in approval when Buchanan slams President Clinton for lending billions of dollars to Mexico. "Why did we send them $50 billion?" the maverick Republican asks. "Because bonds were coming due, my friends!" And he cuts the air with a karate chop. "So we got the New York bankers--Citibank, Chase Manhattan and Goldman Sachs--off the hook. But guess...
...absence of anything better from any other candidate, that is comfort enough for Mitchell and, it seems, for millions of other voters. It has been enough to propel the bellicose Buchanan--infamous for a 1992 G.O.P. convention speech that sent a chill down the spine of anyone less inclined to see America in terms of us vs. them--into second place in the polls, just behind Senate majority leader Bob Dole. After a long time of hand-to-mouth electioneering, Buchanan earlier this month also claimed second place in the money race, surpassing the third-quarter fund raising of formidable...
Even more important than dollars or polls is the emerging sense that Buchanan is setting the pace in this race. He's the one with the resonant message; he's the one with the most passionate following, the true believers, who won't drift off to support Lamar Alexander or Arlen Specter if the weather changes in New Hampshire. And most telling of all, he's the one the other candidates have started to copy. Pat Buchanan is fast becoming the Perot of 1996, the maverick with a message who probably can't win but certainly won't go away...
...advantages, including better fundraising and an existing organizational structure that could translate into a greater chance of getting elected. But the country needs fresh political solutions and Powell would not be able to provide these if be were to compete with Bob Dole, Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan for the votes of right wing zealots. For the same reasons, Powell would probably not be able to effectively challenge the Republican Party's history of race-baiting and scapegoating of the poor and minority groups during or after the primary process...