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Abortion is too narrow a cause to rally the old Reagan coalition. "It stands out now," says conservative analyst Burton Pines, "because there is so little else to galvanize the right. But it's really marginal." Pines is one of many ideologues who are cool to Bush -- "We'll vote for him holding our noses," he says -- and wonder where the next Reagan will come from. One subject of covert conversation in Houston is whether the conservative cause would be better served by a Bush victory or defeat this year. Another is which personality has the best chance of uniting...
BUREAUS: Suzanne Davis (Director of Administration) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Bruce van Voorst...
...stony-faced George Bush struggled through a week of plunging approval ratings, sluggish economic-growth figures and angry sniping from his fellow Republicans, his personal physician, Dr. Burton Lee, mused on the fierce "predatory" impulses that politicians and journalists share with beasts of the jungle. "The second somebody looks like he's on the ropes," Lee said, mixing metaphors, "the hyenas come circling and howling around him. Then some people say, 'Oh my, he doesn't look well...
...ahead of Bush in the polls. Minnesota's Vin Weber said several of his colleagues sarcastically urged the Bush-Quayle campaign to stop "sitting on our lead." Meanwhile, some of Bush's conservative critics -- including columnists George Will and A.M. Rosenthal, direct-mail impresario Richard Viguerie and policy analyst Burton Pines -- suggested that he step aside in favor of a stronger candidate. Terry Eastland, author of a new book on the presidency titled Energy in the Executive, speaks for many fellow conservatives when he observes that "Bush has not put forward a positive reason for people to elect...
David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Bruce van Voorst...