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...mimicry has become more obvious. On July 11, Buchanan pledged in Des Moines, Iowa, to reduce "the confiscatory inheritance tax now imposed on American family farms"--a populist-sounding gloss on a measure that would benefit those who inherit between $600,000 and $5 million. Four days later, Gramm promised on CNN "to do something about inheritance taxes, which are now confiscatory." In September, Buchanan called for a rollback of congressional pensions in the wake of Senator Bob Packwood's resignation, only to be echoed by Lamar Alexander at the candidates' forum in Manchester a few weeks later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PAT BUCHANAN SOLUTION | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...side and the moderates on the other. "I say to Colin Powell, 'Come into this race if you want, but you are not going to take this party back to the days of Rockefeller Republicanism, because we aren't going to let you.'" He calls Dole and Gramm "leap-year conservatives" who shuttle to the right every four years but are squeamish moderates at heart. So this is the Buchanan Dilemma: Will red-meat conservatives who love Pat continue to support him right through the convention, even at the risk of helping re-elect a President they revile; or will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PAT BUCHANAN SOLUTION | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...polls, and Buchanan's rivals have grown increasingly brazen about grabbing his message and making it their own. It was Buchanan, with his infamous declaration of a "cultural war" during the Republican Convention in 1992, who paved the way for Dole's attack on Hollywood this year. Long before Gramm decided that ending affirmative action would be his first presidential act, Buchanan stood virtually alone against what he called "the whole rotten infrastructure of reverse discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PAT BUCHANAN SOLUTION | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...list of appropriations goes on and on: In his announcement speech, Dole identified no fewer than a dozen Buchananesque villains, ranging from the U.N. to affirmative action--both of which Dole had supported in the past. Gramm took aim at half a dozen, including welfare recipients and prisoners. Before he dropped out of the race, California Governor Pete Wilson bet heavily on this year's trifecta of blame: illegal immigrants, affirmative action and repeat criminals (with a call for "three strikes and you're out" legislation). Buchanan, of course, had already put his money on those horses--and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PAT BUCHANAN SOLUTION | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...grappling with America's most heartfelt economic problem is on the party's fringe? One answer is that this issue has mainstream Republicans flummoxed. A close look at the logic of income inequality and stagnant wages suggests that the ideology of people like Bob Dole and Phil Gramm may leave them at least as "impotent" on the issue as Clinton, if not more so. And a close look at Buchanan's attempt to fashion a maverick Republican cure for the problem only underscores that prospect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INCOME INEQUALITY: WHO'S REALLY TO BLAME? | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

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