Word: buchananism
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...MONTHS I WATCHED THE EVER changing definition of "negativity" in the primary coverage. First there was hand wringing over negative ads by Steve Forbes. The next round of slash-and- burn advertising was between Dole and Alexander. Now the vitriol is directed at the followers of Buchanan. This has become a feeding frenzy by a smarmy coalition of Establishment Republicans, Democrats and newsies from left and right. I am an agnostic pro-choice woman living not a mile from Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs. There are no skinheads here. There is no hate here. The hate, venom...
GENERAL COLIN POWELL The pick Bill fears, the man Bob wants. But the price may be too high: Buchanan's troops...
Given the progress of this year's Republican primaries, it's easy to see why Perot would be tempted to move. Buchanan talks like him, bashing NAFTA and GATT, while Forbes spends like him, powering his campaign with his own plentiful cash. And both of them claim the status of political outsider that was crucial to Perot's strength four years ago. For a man with the Texas billionaire's robust self-regard, it can't be much fun to watch stand-ins play the role he wrote for himself...
...particular, the collapse of Buchanan's prospects leaves an opening for Perot to collect some of Pat Buchanan's radically unhappy constituents with their concerns about wage stagnation and job security. But first these voters have to find Perot's Reform Party. For now it is guaranteed a ballot spot in just four states: California, North Dakota, Utah and South Carolina. In another half a dozen states, independent parties already on the ballot, most of them spin-offs from the '92 Perot campaign, are expected to merge with the Reform Party. And Perot lieutenants are pressing petition drives elsewhere...
...BUCHANAN KNOWS HE CAN'T BEAT BOB DOLE, SO he's picking a new fight--with Colin Powell. Sipping from a Styrofoam cup of Chardonnay during a late-night fl ight to Knoxville, Tennessee, last week, Buchanan told TIME, "If Dole wins the nomination and chooses Colin Powell as his running mate, the right-to-life movement will walk out of the convention, a good part of the Christian Coalition will walk, and the principled conservatives will battle" the Powell choice. Chief among them, he promises, will be Pat Buchanan...