Word: buchananism
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...that's not for lack of trying. Twenty years ago, who would have imagined that H. Ross Perot, then a 44-year-old founder of a computer-software company, would win 19% of the vote as a third-party candidate in the 1992 election? George Bush-nemesis Pat Buchanan, a 35-year-old Nixon aide, made the 1974 list, as did presidential aspirants Jack Kemp, then 38 and a two-term Congressman, and Joseph Biden, at 31, the Senate's youngest member. As for perennial presidential almost-aspirant William Bradley, who in '74 was 30 years old and still...
Every once in a while Mort pulls one out that is moderately amusing. "Hail to the Chief, President Bill Clinton. Long may he waiver." But the points he scores are withdrawn when he attributes to his wife the apocryphal remark about Pat Buchanan's speech at the 1992 Republican Convention sounding better in the original German. It's funny--too bad we've heard it before. Meanwhile, that elderly audience keeps on laughing...
...most dangerous conservative in America? Bob Dole? Newt Gingrich? Perhaps Rush Limbaugh or Pat Buchanan? Well, according to last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, it's a man named Charles Murray...
...attract big names. The list of would-bes, maybes and wannabes already includes former Vice President Dan Quayle, Senators Gramm and Bob Dole, ex-Cabinet members Jack Kemp, Dick Cheney, Jim Baker and Lamar Alexander and Governors Pete Wilson of California and William Weld of Massachusetts. (And maybe Pat Buchanan, the two-fisted talking head, but he's given little chance to last beyond the first primary.) Though the real campaign season won't begin until later, some of the big names were on display last weekend for one of the notable pre-season events: the Washington conference...
...Trade. The changes in the global pact would reduce tariffs on manufactured goods, cut agricultural subsidies, tighten the protection of intellectual-property rights and create a new mechanism to mediate future trade disputes. Congress is considering whether to approve U.S. participation in the agreement. Opponents ranging from Pat Buchanan to Ralph Nader warn that the new treaty would require the U.S. to defer to a supranational body on such matters as automobile-emission levels, product warning labels and safety standards. Supporters say the revised treaty could help America's economy grow an additional $200 billion annually, or about...