Word: buchananism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candidates of the two major parties. Moreover, the poll shows that if Powell were the Republican nominee, he would edge Clinton by a few percentage points. In the Republican field, Powell is preferred by 22% of G.O.P.-leaning voters, second to Dole's 43% and well ahead of Pat Buchanan and Phil Gramm, each of whom attract only 6%. If Powell were Dole's vice-presidential choice, their ticket would beat Clinton and Al Gore, while a face-off between just Clinton and Dole shows Clinton ahead...
What was once a fringe crusade is now a real campaign. In his 1992 march against George Bush, Buchanan was in the race for 10 weeks, contested only a few states and never threatened his rival. He's been on the road full-time for six months, targeted the first eight states in the primary schedule, and holds as many fund raisers each month as he did in the entire 1992 campaign. He is enjoying himself more than when he earned his party's scorn for challenging a sitting President. "Last time I was a vehicle to state George Bush...
Serving up a menu of untrimmed red meat, Buchanan's first goal has been to win over social conservatives who are pivotal in early-primary states. He promises term limits for federal judges, a Smithsonian Institution that respects American values and a no-exceptions ban on abortion. He has warmed up his rhetoric about tax cuts to woo the supply-side supporters of Jack Kemp and attacks Dole and Gramm as government huggers who won't go far enough in cutting the budget...
Beyond that, Buchanan is broadening his message to court voters whose wages have stayed flat or fallen while corporate earnings and executive salaries have soared. He claims both parties are too willing to "bow down to a gold calf" of free trade, sacrificing "American jobs on the altars of transnational corporations." He wants to repeal NAFTA and GATT, end foreign aid within five years, and slap across-the-board tariffs on Japanese and Chinese goods...
...nativist, isolationist message aimed at the angry white men who voted for Ross Perot in 1992 and at Reagan Democrats who Buchanan hopes will "cross over" to vote in Republican primaries and caucuses in closely contested states like Iowa, South Carolina and Georgia. Bay Buchanan admits that many of the economic nationalists her brother is courting are pro-choice or libertarian and "disagree with us on social policy." But she believes the shaky coalition will hold because both groups think Buchanan will fight for them...