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...result of Glenn's decades of networking. Even his most intimate friendships seem to have served a purpose. "My wife's cousin's son is Dylan's best friend," Cochran explains when asked how Glenn got his first job in Cochran's office. Pictures of George Bush, Newt Gingrich and other G.O.P. stalwarts stare down from the wall of Glenn's headquarters. But the support is not just the wages of bonhomie. Republicans know that as America becomes more ethnically diverse, they must attract more minority voters to retain the majority. "This is not about being the party...
Returning from a book tour in which he apologized for everything but the end of Seinfeld, Newt was looking calm, thin and happy. Then James Dobson, the country's most powerful Christian activist, with 28 million radio listeners, came calling, threatening to bolt the party unless Gingrich stones the adulterer in the Oval Office and delivers candidates to Dobson's liking, not ones who use him and don't take his calls in the morning...
...Gingrich immediately got back in touch with his inner bomb-throwing child, told his troops to shout from the dome that Clinton, the country's chief law enforcer, was guilty not of the wimpy word "scandals," but of "crimes." Gingrich must also deliver on the Dobsonesque agenda that he once put on the back burner and embrace anti-gay, antiabortion, pro-gun candidates. Dobson, with more adherents than Ralph Reed or Pat Robertson, wants respect, and he wants it yesterday...
...time when U.S. politicians, despite their misgivings, fell in behind the White House in its dealings with foreign countries has long gone: Newt Gingrich arrives in Israel tomorrow, and his guns are already blazing -- at President Clinton. An op-ed article he wrote for today?s Jerusalem Post offers reasons for the Netanyahu government to reject Washington?s compromise ultimatum on troop withdrawal from the West Bank. ?[Israel] cannot replace its generals' judgments on security concerns with the optimism of those who have never faced a threat to their survival,? wrote Gingrich...
...Newt Gingrich wants to keep it that way. The small eight-person select committee he assembled Wednesday to address the issue is built for discretion and dignity, and its Republican chairman, Christopher Cox, has already achieved in his first round of interviews a credibility level of which Dan Burton never dreamed. In the GOP, the word is out: This is a big one. Let's not fumble the ball...