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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...
Listen closely to the other candidates, and it is easy to conclude that Buchanan has, in one sense, already won. When Bob Dole denounces Hollywood sleazemongers, when Phil Gramm's pollster tells him to talk more about "fair trade, not free trade," when Arlen Specter starts to peddle a flat tax and Lamar Alexander blasts congressional pensions, Buchanan gets to lean back in the rented van that drives through the north country of New Hampshire and revel in remaking the Republican Party in his own image. This has become the Buchanan Effect. "All the candidates are responding...
...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...
...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...
...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...