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...rest assured, young liberals, Cambridge and Massachusetts has not gone GOP just...
...Buchanan is providing George W. Bush's campaign staff with some much-needed ? if probably short-lived ? dramatic tension. The political pundit and columnist, who recently dismissed the GOP as "a Xerox copy of the Democratic party," confirmed on Monday morning?s "Today" show that he is thinking of defecting from the GOP and seeking the Reform party?s nomination for president. Not that Buchanan should assume the welcome wagon will be wheeled out for him. If he does push to be the nominee of the party founded by Ross Perot ? he said he would make the "agonizing" decision...
...Republican and Democratic strategists, an independent Buchanan campaign remains something of an X factor. As a social conservative, Buchanan could siphon off twice as many votes from a Republican candidate than from a Democrat, according to a poll conducted by GOP consultant Frank Luntz. Republicans are painfully aware of this threat, says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Matthew Cooper. ?As Jay [Carney, TIME's Washington correspondent] discovered, the Bush people have launched a charm offensive to keep Buchanan from bolting,? says Cooper. But loyal Dems shouldn?t mail their Buchanan campaign contributions just yet, Democratic strategist James Carville told TIME...
...even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to undergo illegal and dangerous operations." Gasp. A statement that wouldn?t arouse much ire with sociologists (or certainly moderate San Franciscans) suddenly had the GOP?s right wing up in arms. McCain, after 17 years of opposing abortion in the Senate, suddenly found himself first vainly fudging on CNN Sunday night, and then writing an abashed letter Tuesday to National Right to Life Committee president Wanda Franz. "I share our common goal of reducing the staggering...
Lamar Alexander was too much like George W. to be a real alternative. And so, after trudging an uphill campaign trail practically nonstop for six years, the former Tennessee governor bowed his head Monday and dropped out of the GOP 2000 presidential campaign. "My heart wants to keep going, but there is no realistic way to do it," Alexander said in a prepared statement to supporters gathered at the state capitol in Nashville. During the 1996 primaries, Bill Clinton had called Alexander the opponent he most feared. Four years later, after pouring the last of his meager campaign funds into...