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Looks like there are some leaks in George W. Bush's Big Tent. Two weeks after fellow presidential candidate John McCain met with the Log Cabin Republicans, an association of gay GOPers, Bush said he would probably decline a similar invitation. "I am someone who is a uniter, not a divider. I don't believe in group thought, pitting one group of people against another," Bush told Tim Russert Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." Huh? This seems more than a little inconsistent coming from a candidate who has had private meetings with Christian conservative groups...
...fact, the issue has become somewhat of a sore spot for Bush the Younger. After he earned high marks from gay groups for including openly gay people on his campaign staff, a group of Christian conservatives says Bush promised them in a September meeting that he would not appoint gays to any federal posts, according to the Dallas Morning News. The Bush campaign isn't talking about what happened during the meeting; the Log Cabin Republicans have asked for a clarification. Bush has so far managed to pull off the enviable political sleight-of-hand of remaining vague enough...
...election where public opinion is largely like a bowl of lukewarm cream of wheat, Buchanan has felt the ire and vitriol of countless columnists and commentators. While no one has risen to heights of indignation over Bush or Bradley, Buchanan has left a trail of incendiary and occasionally offensive comments from his previous two presidential runs and "off season" political columns. They range from his proposal to build a triple wall along the Mexican border patrolled by the National Guard to his new book questioning American involvement in WWII. He has pledged that, under a Buchanan regime, the "Chinese...
George W. Bush, the man with the most suspect and maligned foreign policy background of all the major presidential candidates, managed to deliver his first foreign policy stump speech Friday without saying a whole lot. The governor presented a platform constructed of the broadest of planks, emphasizing principle over policy. Things he's for: "Peace, free trade, strong alliances and a strong military." Bush was critical of the Clinton administration's inconsistent record on China, and said his own policy would be forceful and consistent. The governor also wouldn't put U.S. troops under U.N. control and vowed...
...speech shouldn't have a major impact on Bush's comfortable lead within the Republican party. "It's standard bumper-sticker GOP orthodoxy," says TIME congressional correspondent James Carney. But it should help quiet criticism from the media that, when it comes to foreign policy, Bush the Younger is no, well, Bush the Elder. Where Bush's push for internationalism could hurt him is the general election, especially if Pat Buchanan snags the Reform party nomination, whence he could siphon off a large enough contingent of America-first devotees to split the GOP and leave the White House wide open...