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Most of all, Buchanan, who accuses Bush of hijacking the Reagan Revolution, is determined to return the G.O.P. to its conservative roots. While his rhetoric drips with the dark resentments of nativism, isolationism and protectionism, Buchanan is winning broad support with his denunciations of Bush as an unprincipled pragmatist who would rather win re-election than lead the nation. His battle cry of "America First" appeals to those who think the country is headed in the wrong direction. "It is time," says Buchanan, "to start looking out for the forgotten Americans right here in the United States...
Like Richard Nixon's Silent Majority, Buchanan's supporters -- overwhelmingly white, male and angry -- revel in his harangues as he attacks gays, environmentalists and foreigners. Though he denies charges of anti-Semitism, he last week put down a band of Jewish hecklers by telling them, "This rally is of Americans, and by Americans, and for the good old U.S.A., my friends." Says Marcel Bourgoin, 19, who turned out wearing an American-flag tie at a Charleston, S.C., harbor cruise: "He's not afraid to step on people's toes." As Buchanan puts it, "Real men gotta say what they mean...
That is the impetus behind Buchanan's two-pronged attack. On the home front, he slams Bush for breaking his no new taxes pledge and for signing last year's Civil Rights Act, which Buchanan calls an unjust quota bill. Buchanan rails against illegal immigrants, who he claims are draining taxpayer dollars. He wants to slash the size of the Federal Government, freeze government regulations for two years and roll back half of Congress's recent pay hike. He also wants to clamp term limits on "those check-kiting, boodling Congressmen on Capitol Hill." In one of his nastier pitches...
Will the White House make the first move? Not likely. "If we reached out now," says Bush campaign manager Fred Malek, who worked with Buchanan in the Nixon White House, "he'd slap our hand and go on national TV and make fun of us. We're just going to leave him alone." But unless Bush engages him, Buchanan may stubbornly balk at laying down his arms. Such a standoff might open the door to some back-door negotiations by an old friend of both men's: Richard Nixon. Buchanan, who says he plans no third-party...
...hard to tell if the President's desperate act did much good at the polls last Tuesday. As expected, Bush won every contest handily, boosting his delegate count over TV commentator Pat Buchanan 148 to 20. But Buchanan continued to draw a solid third in the Republican contests; in Georgia, where he concentrated his efforts, Buchanan won 36%. The next morning, in a move he admitted was "presumptuous," Buchanan called on Bush to get out of the race. Buchanan, said Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, "has gone Looney Tunes...