Word: buchananism
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...York, the Midwest and California. He has proved to be a cunning opponent; his victory in Arizona may have turned on his decision to mail out 250,000 letters a month before the primary, explaining how to request absentee ballots. By the time Arizonans flocked to see Buchanan's road show, many of them had already voted for Forbes. Campaign chairman Bill Dal Col estimates that two-thirds of the total absentee-ballot group voted for Forbes...
...Buchanan is wooing this group too, but with a message that is pitched not at the wealthy but at the working class. At a rally in South Carolina he nearly took the paint off the walls with his mount-'em-up speech. He promises not what he will do as President, but what "we" will do--shut down the border, get out of world organizations, impose tariffs. The result is a subtle but powerful co-opt of the listener. Dole, by comparison, still talks about that guy Bob Dole, as if he were just a stand-in for the real...
Still, ever since his surprising success in Iowa, Buchanan has been faced with a personal dilemma: whether and how to adjust his persona from that of the rowdy creator of a movement to its responsible leader. And so lately he has tried on a new voice. The 600 or so folks who turned up on Wednesday night at the Evangel Cathedral in Spartanburg, South Carolina, were treated to a remarkable spectacle: Patrick Buchanan preaching redemption. Buchanan left political veterans gasping when he borrowed the catechism of Jesse Jackson's campaign, the Old Testament verse that went with him everywhere...
...then he came to abortion, and offered what amounted to a rebuke to the most fiery of the flock. "The way to end abortions," Buchanan declared, "is to change the human heart, and the human heart is not changed by getting in people's face with anger and rage; the human heart is changed by love." This includes, he told them, reaching out to women who have had abortions themselves: "What a woman needs after an abortion is the kind of love and care she did not get before the abortion...
...been trying to say is that they've seen Bob Dole where he is best, in the back rooms making the childish ones act like adults, a place where they speak a different language than the verses of the campaign trail. Dole's hope is that even though Buchanan knows how to throw out the red meat, the Governors can convince people that Bob Dole is the President who will best know how to keep all the other food groups on the table...