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That might have come naturally to Dole; but instead he tried something harder. He tried to change. For the entire first half of the race, his fear of Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan was enough to shake his faith in running as himself, a pragmatist against the ideologues, one who was willing to "downsize government, [but] not devastate it," as he said in May 1995. When Buchanan started peeling the paint off the walls with his talk of America's greedy corporations, Dole was suddenly George Meany, denouncing corporate layoffs. Soon his campaign was a battleground state...
...candidate, Dole could hardly market his essential nature when he was so busy repackaging it. By the time he had dispensed with Gramm and the rest, he had abandoned his long-standing support for affirmative action and taken a much harder line on illegal immigration. He had led the fight to repeal the ban on assault weapons, then shifted positions a year later. He had morphed into a movie critic, of films he hadn't seen. He had called Steve Forbes' flat tax "snake oil" in February but by August had become a born-again supply-sider. "I'm willing...
...PHIL GRAMM (R) Senior Senator...
...children RELIGION: Episcopalian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Professor POLITICAL CAREER: Sought Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, 1976; U.S. House, 1978-84; U.S. Senate, 1984- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 565087, Dallas 75356. Tel.: 214-360-3700 As a member of Congress for 18 years--four of them as a House Democrat--Gramm has become a sophisticated political power broker with a firm conservative base and a reputation as a top fund raiser. Though little of the power and prestige translated into presidential votes this year, Gramm is the Goliath in this campaign...
Paul left the House in 1984--only to become a Phil Gramm casualty in a Senate primary--and wants back in. The controversial doctor has called for a return to the gold standard and a ban on abortion. He has also said that "95% of the black men in Washington, D.C. are 'semi-criminal' or 'entirely criminal.'" He has tried to distance himself from such statements, but it is unlikely that Lefty Morris will let voters forget...