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Having split the voters who hate deficits from the voters who hate taxes even more, Forbes has gone on to break a very fragile peace: the one between the party's moderates and its social conservatives. Last week, after Buchanan shocked the party and punctured Phil Gramm's campaign by beating him in Louisiana, the whole race looked like it was opening up--and the G.O.P. coalition like it was falling apart. Attracted to his relaxed views on abortion and homosexuality, social libertarians went for Forbes; values conservatives for Buchanan; supply siders for Forbes; deficit hawks for Dole; anxious economic...
...that Bob Dole, when asked whether he's too old for the presidency, could satisfy a large part of the electorate on that point simply by saying that he and Steve Forbes and Pat Buchanan are about the same age? The answer is clouded by the fact that Phil Gramm actually does look about the same age as Bob Dole, and did even before the results of the Louisiana caucuses were...
...Former presidential candidate Phil Gramm, in reference to Pat Buchanan's calls for restrictions on trade and immigration, as quoted in yesterday's Boston Globe...
...advocating a state income tax while governor of Tennessee. But Dole was in turn blasted by Buchanan on the same ground. In new televised campaign ads, Buchanan noted that Dole had voted for five tax increases over the past twenty years.More SpoilsWhile Buchanan and Alexander work to capture Phil Gramm's voter and financial base, Dole has been collecting endorsements from the senator's aborted presidential campaign. A day after receiving the endorsement of former Gramm finance chairman Tom Loeffler, Dole Friday won the support of Arizona Senator John McCain. Like Dole a military veteran, McCain is expected...
Weld, who is challenging popular Democratic incumbent Sen. John Kerry this November, made his announcement several hours after Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), widely recognized as a more conservative presidential candidate, dropped out of the race...