Word: buchananism
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...hours, when early exit polls showed Buchanan in a dead heat with Bush, the President's advisers feared that he might be defeated. Campaign manager Robert Teeter telephoned Bush to warn him. Realizing that male voters were turning out in disproportionate numbers for Buchanan, Bush officials issued an emergency order to the campaign's massive phone banks: Call only women voters...
...next Bush-Buchanan showdown is set for March 3 in Georgia, where House minority whip Newt Gingrich believes the challenger may strip as much as 30% from the incumbent's vote. Though it hardly seems possible, Buchanan has escalated his rhetorical blasts to new heights of populist rage. Late last week Buchanan was appealing to racial resentments by accusing Bush of signing a civil rights bill that would sanctify reverse discrimination against whites. "If you belong to the Exeter-Yale G.O.P. club, that's not going to bother you greatly because, as we know, it is not their children...
...Parrying Buchanan's bombast will require finesse. In New Hampshire, Bush declined to attack Buchanan directly and never mentioned him by name. The decision, according to a campaign adviser, was based on the belief that "people voted for Buchanan as a protest, so it wouldn't have mattered if we had gone negative on him in New Hampshire. Even if they'd thought Buchanan was a kook, they still would have voted for him." The same danger lurks in the South, especially in such states as Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, where Democrats are allowed to vote in G.O.P. primaries. Moreover...
Thus the job of pummeling Buchanan will fall to Bush surrogates, including Vice President Dan Quayle and former Marine Corps Commandant General P.X. Kelley. They will crisscross the South, appealing to the region's patriotism by depicting Buchanan as a neo-isolationist who opposed the Persian Gulf...
...only by sheer attrition, Bush will prevail over Buchanan and win renomination. In the meantime, the question is whether Bush's advisers can prevent the struggle from diminishing the President's chances in the fall. If Bush faces Bill Clinton in November, the President's aides think that their boss's World War II heroism and image as a devoted family man will compare favorably to the Arkansas Governor's record on at least those two scores. But the Democratic nominee, whoever it turns out to be, will be harder to beat if Buchanan keeps knocking the President off balance...