Word: buchananism
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Instead of rallying Republicans, the Balkan showdown has exposed how divided the party is over America's duties in the post-cold war world. After days of tap dancing, by late last week the Republicans had cleaved fairly cleanly between two camps: those in Pat Buchanan's populist, isolationist fortress who were arguing we should leave Europe to the Europeans, and those who, belatedly in some cases, fell in step behind Arizona Senator John McCain, the former prisoner of war in Vietnam, and called for NATO to fight on even harder to preserve the credibility of U.S. power...
...wonder so many of the presidential candidates at first went searching for camouflage. Most had planned to pad through the complexities of the post-cold war world in careful speeches in front of think tanks that would be largely ignored. Now their strengths and weaknesses are in full view: Buchanan, McCain and Gary Bauer (on leave as Family Research Council president) at least have the benefit of strong, albeit wildly different, convictions. Bush has to confront his inexperience; Elizabeth Dole is determined to show that her positions come from her own work with desperate refugees, rather than from pillow talk...
Forbes' new hires reflect his intense courtship of the G.O.P. social conservatives he so angered in 1996. This time he has recruited veterans of the Buchanan brigade and Christian Coalition chieftains in California, Iowa, Georgia and Alaska. These activists will be crucial if Forbes hopes to win early contests. "It's a smart move, snatching up every Christian Coalition and evangelical person that he can," says Bobbie Gobel, head of the Christian Coalition in Iowa, who lost her executive director to Forbes because she couldn't match his offer. Rivals, who back-load salaries to preserve precious cash, charge that...
...listed the candidates he said were to the right of the center, including J. Danforth Quayle, Lamar Alexander and Patrick J. Buchanan, and conservative Gary L. Bauer, "who I never heard of before" the race, he said...
...ticket. Both Bush and Dole are moderates, though. "If it begins to look as if establishment candidates have a solid lock on the party," says Carney,"the social conservatives could start to rebel" They might choose to unite around one of the several conservatives now running -- perhaps Pat Buchanan or Gary Bauer -- and create the kind of intra-party breach that gave the first George Bush such a headache when he ran for the Oval Office...