Word: buchananism
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Maybe so, but Buchanan is no longer a minor irritant to Bush's re-election effort. With his hard-hitting attacks, linking Bush to everything from higher taxes and trade deficits to pornographic art, he is softening Bush up for the Democratic assault in the fall. Though he mostly confined himself to the ideological margins last week, Buchanan nonetheless serves as the convenient vessel into which voters dissatisfied with Bush's handling of the economy and other national affairs can pour their resentment. And with the unemployment level rising last month to 7.3%, the highest figure since 1985, discontent with...
...sooner had Bush shuffled to the right than other advisers began to tell him that he should have moved to the left. Roughly 40% of Buchanan's support comes from independents, Bush's aides calculate, and the President will be hard pressed to win them back by pandering to conservatives. Better for Bush to concentrate on the mainstream voters who carried him to victory in 1988 and whose support is crucial in such key states as Illinois, New Jersey and Michigan. "The Bush people have a choice," said a senior campaign adviser. "They can woo the conservatives and lose...
Bush, by contrast, is taking no chances. Under Teeter's guidance he has moved quickly to polish his conservative credentials by coming full circle on taxes and soliciting the resignation of National Endowment for the Arts Chairman John Frohnmayer after Buchanan demanded his head. Bush denied that a five-day swing through seven Southern states last week was beginning to make him appear panicked and frantic. "I've thought about that, and I've concluded it doesn't. What I want to do is look like we're not taking anything for granted." But the same day, Bush suddenly...
...races remain markedly dissimilar. Whereas Ford became President after Richard Nixon resigned, Bush was elected in his own right. Unlike Buchanan, Reagan was a proven vote getter, who had twice been elected Governor of one of the nation's biggest states, and went on to win 10 primaries. Nonetheless, the spirit of 1976 may already be working for the Democrats. As a senior Bush campaign adviser said last week, "Everybody knows that the way to defeat an incumbent President is with a challenge from the ideological wing of the party...
...Buchanan knows that while Reagan lost the '76 nomination, his gutsy challenge to Ford strengthened his position in the crowded 1980 Republican primary race. Buchanan has already gained a spot near Dan Quayle in the 1996 starting gate. "Reagan dusted Ford up, but it didn't prevent him from winning it the next time," an Administration official says. "Pat is rolling the dice and figures he could become the heir apparent to the conservative wing...