Word: buchananism
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...Atwater's vision was not realized this year. Today's GOP includes the more-or-less moderate Bush contingent and the ultra-conservative wing that propelled Patrick J. Buchanan to prominence in the primary season. It also features a committed anti-abortion group holding fast against a growing pro-choice movement in the party. But the groups appear more fractious than united...
EVEN AS PRESIDENT BUSH FOUGHT FOR HIS POLITICAL LIFE last week, the G.O.P. was dissolving into fratricidal strife. In conversations with reporters aboard Bush's campaign train, moderate Republicans and White House aides fingered conservatives PATRICK BUCHANAN, Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett for causing the President's political problems. Outraged conservatives struck back the same day. "All three men are crisscrossing the country attempting to save the Bush & campaign . . . whose spokesmen are attacking them," right-wing activist Brent Bozell complained in a letter to White House chief of staff James Baker. But even before the blame game started, Bozell...
Patrick J. Buchanan, in announcing his candidacy, accused Bush of being an "internationalist" (one kept waiting for Buchanan to air an attack ad which used "The Internationale" for theme music). The Democrats seconded the notion with their "George Bush: The Anywhere But America Tour" T-shirts...
...Buchanan, rest easy--George Bush is no internationalist, nor is he a free trader. As we have discovered so often during the past four years, where Bush stands has nothing to do with where his policies...
...some comics, the subject of Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan is as fertile as Bush-Quayle. Will Durst, who refers to Limbaugh as "Jabba the Talk Show Host," says, "Buchanan had a killer instinct; he wasn't afraid to lick up the blood. But Rush leaves it there and just chews off the flesh." Harry Shearer, the actor (This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons) and host of his own politico-comic radio show, is kinder, gentler to Limbaugh: "This country runs on personality, not on ideas. I think if Rush were spouting diametrically opposed ideas, he'd be just as popular...