Word: buchananism
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...Buchanan's announcement that he was running for President was exactly in character. He was at pains to say how much he likes George Bush. He was communications director in the Reagan-Bush Administration and has dined with the current First Family in their private White House quarters. But Buchanan has his reasons for launching a full-frontal assault against the fellow Republican he likes so much. For Buchanan, Bush is insufficiently Buchanan- like -- not nativist, rightist, homophobic, authoritarian or anti-Israel enough...
Like many ultraconservatives, Buchanan is unfailingly kind and generous to people regardless of their background. But he can be just as cruel to the groups to which they belong. To him, gays are "sodomites," the poor are "freeloaders," and immigrants from anywhere but Western Europe are a threat to the American way of life. Buchanan's remarks about Jews in particular are so provocative that his fellow panelists on TV political talk shows -- including Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal, Morton Kondracke of the New Republic and Washington Post columnist Mark Shields -- have felt the need to say publicly...
...moment too soon. The expected primary challenge to Bush from conservative commentator Pat Buchanan is no trifling matter in New Hampshire. The state's first-in-the-nation primary has always been an outsized test of political strength, and Bush has always had difficulties here. Buchanan could easily capture 30% of the G.O.P. primary vote; anything higher will be interpreted as a setback for Bush even if, technically, he wins. A Buchanan victory could roil everything. Since 1952 -- when Harry Truman decided to retire after losing to Estes Kefauver -- no one has been elected President without first winning his party...
...Buchanan's most significant support comes from the state's largest newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader, whose hostility toward Bush is legend. The paper's late publisher, William Loeb, years ago labeled Bush a "clean- fingernail, silk-stocking liberal," and no amount of presidential stroking has calmed Loeb's successor, his widow Nackey, 67. To her, Bush simply "sits under an umbrella and watches the storm, hoping to come out with neither rain on his face nor clay on his feet...
Gregg predicts that Buchanan will get "a healthy protest vote" and that "others will show their upset by staying home on Election Day." But he is nonetheless confident that Bush will prevail because "there's no serious alternative." If there were, says Edward Dupont, the Republican state-senate president, "we might well have a different story...