Word: buchananism
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...there was one thing I thought safe under Bush, it was free trade. In the New Hampshire primary, all the Democrats (with the notable exception of Paul E. Tsongas) and Republican challenger Patrick J. Buchanan were cultivating anti-Japanese and anti-German xenophobia. They promised trade barriers to "protect" American citizens from the foreign invasion of (better? cheaper?) goods...
...election showed that the virulent anti-gay rhetoric of Patrick J. Buchanan at the Republican convention was unacceptable to many U.S. voters, and that Americans could deal with a president who campaigned with the words "gay" and "AIDS" on his lips...
...officially last Tuesday, but it had started unofficially more than two years ago, when George Bush reneged on his no-new-taxes pledge. He sparked a full-scale revolt by the party's right $ wing, which neither much liked nor trusted him in the first place. Led by Patrick Buchanan, angry conservatives mounted a challenge to Bush in the early primaries. The President, in turn, wooed the right so relentlessly at the Republican Convention in August that he alienated the moderates. Bush never recovered from the error...
...Religious Right. Championed by such figures as Buchanan and televangelist Pat Robertson, this group would return the party to a Reagan-era platform emphasizing tax cuts and aggressive deregulation of business to cure the economy and strict family values to salve the nation's social ills. The far right would go further, getting the government out of the workplace but into private homes, backing stricter laws against abortion, restricting the rights of homosexuals and widening censorship. Though these so-called cultural conservatives represent only a small fraction of the electorate, they are a powerful force in Republican politics and provide...
...over the chairman's gavel is merely a prelude to the fight over the 1996 nomination. Most party watchers expect Kemp and his fellow progressives to advance their newfangled agenda while wooing the hard right with promises of fealty on family values. With Buchanan, Kemp and possibly Bennett or Robertson crowding the right side of the field, Vice President Dan Quayle can afford to shift more toward the center. Quayle, who keeps a Bush- like foot in nearly all camps, has already begun to moderate his position on abortion, suggesting that Republicans should concentrate on restricting the procedure if they...