Word: buchananism
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...graduated two years after Pat Buchanan, and three years ahead of William Bennett, the entrepreneurial virtue-monger of the '90s. We are all Gonzaga boys. I see any one of us, long ago, mounting the stage in the dusky Gonzaga auditorium and declaiming "A Message to Garcia," while black-cassocked Jesuits perch along the sidewalls, alert and ominous as crows...
That's just what Alexander finally did last week, and just in time, surging to a surprising third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and a top-three position in polling just before the New Hampshire primary. With most Republicans rejecting Iowa runner-up Pat Buchanan as too extreme and divisive, Alexander managed to position himself as the electable alternative to front runner Bob Dole--the place where all the other candidates, perhaps including Dole, would like...
...THAT THE THREE leading presidential candidates in 1996 are Bill Clinton, Bob Dole and Pat Buchanan. Is there a precise way to express what's obvious, which is that they are utterly different kinds of people...
...difference isn't background: Clinton and Dole both come from small-town, lower-middle-class Middle America. Buchanan, an accountant's son from the sleepy, segregated Washington of the 1940s, falls roughly into the same range as the other two. It isn't ideology either. Two of the three are Republicans, and two are moderates; we still don't have a clean division into three categories...
There are three main paths in the U.S. today: Talent, Lifer and Mandarin. It's possible to think of American politics as an epic power struggle among the three paths; in this year's presidential campaign, Buchanan is the Talent path's candidate, Dole is the Lifer path's, and Clinton is the Mandarin path...