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Remember Reagan's giant convention video? Edmonds bets on an equally elaborate homage to Barry Goldwater this year. Honoring the party paterfamilias could help strengthen Bush's shaky right flank -- but look out: the feisty Arizonan also tends to say what he thinks, regardless of the script...
...their pro-choice credentials, Bush might try to move toward the center as November approaches. But in some recent state elections, candidates who tiptoed away from pro-life positions got little thanks from voters. With the New Hampshire primary only weeks away, the President must also protect his right flank against Pat Buchanan. "I think my party should be pro-life," insists Buchanan. "And if that loses us votes...
...reactionary ideas. But he retained enough traces of xenophobia to sound like a flashback from the isolationist 1930s. Launching his campaign in New Hampshire, where the first 1992 presidential primary is only nine weeks away, Buchanan demanded no less than America's retreat from the world at flank speed...
...have to do so much to woo California Republicans. His natural moderation should appeal to the average California Republican, who is fiscally conservative but socially more liberal than most G.O.P. voters in other states. But Bush's hard-line opposition to abortion -- adopted to placate his party's right flank -- lands him to the right of 60% of California's G.O.P. conservatives, according to a private Republican poll. And his refusal to ban all oil drilling off the coast places his ecological credentials in question in a state where everyone is an environmentalist...
...fact, Giardi would have thrown for over 300 yards and a fourth touchdown against the Bears had a holding call not nullified a pretty 79-yard scoring strike down the left flank...