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...stand and fought for votes on every major issue of the past half-century, even some supporters say they don't know what he stands for. It is a politician's worst nightmare: Dole's own internal polls show that voters know what Pat Buchanan believes in, what Phil Gramm would fight for. A senior adviser to the Dole campaign was brutal in his private assessment: "If you ask Dole today, 'What's your message?' he'll say, 'Tenth Amendment, family values, preserve, protect and defend.' He's got the mantra down--it just doesn't mean anything...
With Gingrich too in the wings, the Dole campaign is running scared. "It's the job of the front runner to be disciplined and put the nervousness aside and stay on message," goads Charlie Black, Phil Gramm's general chairman. "But they're panicked and they're overreacting to a lot of things." A peek inside the vast, well-oiled Dole operation shows signs of fear and frustration. Campaign sources say that Dole booted his top field organizer, Jill Hanson, off his campaign plane and narrowed her portfolio in the wake of the disastrous tie with Phil Gramm last August...
...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...
...trade, as on immigration, Buchanan yields to no presidential contender in the extremity of his policy. Not only did he vocally oppose NAFTA and the creation of the World Trade Organization (unlike Dole, Gramm and Clinton), now that these agreements have passed, he won't let bygones be bygones. He wants to dismantle both pacts and erect new trade barriers: a 10% tariff on Japanese goods, a 20% tariff on Chinese goods and a "social tariff" of unknown size on goods from Mexico and other developing nations...
...second one-fifth--and the third, and the fourth, and the fifth. The potential appeal of a sharply redistributive income tax is unknown, but this simple math suggests it's bigger than before and getting bigger. And that is President Clinton's issue to claim--not Buchanan's, not Gramm's, not Dole...