Word: buchananism
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...king of phone-call frenzy is neither an insurgent Democrat like Brown nor a Republican conservative like the fast-fading Pat Buchanan. That honor belongs instead to billionaire Texas businessman H. Ross Perot, who positions himself as a modern-day Cincinnatus called from the boardroom by the little people clamoring for him to mount an independent campaign for the White House. In what may be the cleverest antipolitics fandango in an antipolitics year, Perot insists, "I have no desire to be President. My personal feelings are, anybody intelligent enough to be able to do the job would not want...
...Warbucks Goes to Washington.) But such speculation is premature: Perot might not run, his record might not survive public scrutiny, he may prove a maladroit campaigner, and his damn-the-torpedoes style may not sit well with voters. Still, the Bush camp, having already survived third-party threats from Buchanan and hatemonger David Duke, is taking Perot very seriously indeed. "There is contingency planning going on," says a senior Bush campaign adviser. "In places we need to win, like Pennsylvania and Texas, he could be a pain in the butt...
Send-them-a-message candidates like Brown -- and Buchanan in the early going -- have found fertile soil in the primaries largely because there are legitimate reasons for public-spirited voters to protest. Bush may win re- election, but little in the campaign is likely to be an endorsement of his handling of domestic affairs. On the Democratic side, Clinton and Brown are the embodiment of the ancient Greek maxim of the fox and the hedgehog. Clinton, the fox, knows many things well: his policy positions on a wide range of issues are thoughtful and often innovative. But Brown, like...
...Republican presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan used a PBS show as Exhibit A in his attacks on President Bush for condoning "pornographic and blasphemous art" funded by the NEA. A Buchanan TV ad featured scenes from Tongues Untied, a documentary about the gay black life-style that ran on 114 PBS stations last July...
...accomplish this trick, the probable centerpiece of Clinton's speech will involve how and to what extent the U.S. should aid the former Soviet Union. Stung by Pat Buchanan's isolationist attacks and the common criticism that he has spent too much time on foreign affairs, Bush has virtually ignored the issue. In pleading poverty ("There isn't a lot of money around . . . I don't have a blank check") and refusing to heed Richard Nixon's warnings about chaos and a return to dictatorship in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Bush has offered Clinton a window of opportunity...