Word: buchananism
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Republicans lavished 37% on the upstart Pat Buchanan, an intensely focused right-wing commentator and old Nixon-Reagan speechwriter who uses ideas like ax handles. Those votes were less an expression of faith in Buchanan than an angry gesture directed at Bush, at his broken promises ("Read my lips: no new taxes") and at what many saw as his almost bizarre disconnection from the realities of American life, especially life in New Hampshire, which has been in an economic slump since 1989. At the end of the primary campaign, Bush showed up at a "town meeting" in Goffstown...
...level, the message from New Hampshire seemed contradictory. Buchanan mocked Bush for raising taxes, while Tsongas ridiculed his opponents for promising to cut middle-class taxes -- an indulgence, Tsongas thought. But both Buchanan and Tsongas attracted voters for similar reasons. Among those deeply troubled over the nation's condition and desperate for a change, Buchanan and Tsongas represented the most appealing antidotes to the political paralysis in Washington. They had appealing intensity, and they were, in their two strange ways, both fresh characters in a process Americans have come to believe is hopelessly phony. "When you're bleeding," says University...
...think what would happen if we cast that one last taboo aside and acknowledged that the real political equation might be the rich vs. the rest of us! George Bush would no doubt continue to complain, in ever shriller tones, about the dangers of "envy and divisiveness." Pat Buchanan, Clinton and other faux men of the people would have to admit that their assets place them securely within the Porsche-driving class. And the rest of us, especially in the vague middle strata, would have to toss out our lottery tickets and knuckle down for the struggle for national health...
...been pathetic. First he denied the problem, then offered too little, too late in his overlyhyped State of the Union address. His jobs, jobs, jobs" trip to Japan was a political fiasco that accomplished nothing. He campaigned in New Hampshire with the fuzziest of messages and without attacking Buchanan's upstart, highly-ideological campaign...
...results of last week's New Hampshire primary show that Bush is paying the price for his past political expediency and present political ineptitude. The incumbent president garnered only 53 percent of the vote, while-Buchanan got 37 percent. Those aren't strong numbers for a sitting president...