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...candidate by describing him as "pro-life." Says William Lacy, chief strategist for Dole's presidential bid: "Without having significant support of the Christian right a Republican cannot win the nomination or the general election." Reed is so hot a commodity that the presidential campaign of Senator Phil Gramm of Texas offered to hire him as its political director, the No. 2 staff job. Reed declined. It would have been a demotion...
...Hampshire last week. If the Coalition grows large enough, he advised, "then everyone running for President will be pro-family; they'll have to come to us." And so they have. The latest closed-door meeting of Coalition state directors held in Washington in January drew both Dole and Gramm. Furthermore, Coalition lobbyists sat among the select group of outsiders who met regularly in House Speaker Newt Gingrich's suite to coordinate the campaign to pass the Contract with America...
Alexander, Gramm and Pat Buchanan. None work for Bill Clinton. Democrats are concerned the Coalition may be eating into their dwindling base. Voters are looking for more morality in their politics, and the Coalition is providing it. "Thanks in great part to people like Ralph Reed, they have become a mainstream constituency," said Democratic consultant Mark McKinnon, who is based in Austin, Texas. "I have been advising my clients that we get ourselves in a lot of trouble by attacking the religious right. Instead of inciting them, we ought to try to co-opt them. We need to show...
...with a plainspoken appearance at his Senate confirmation hearing, during which he explained that his inconsistent recollections about the number of abortions he has performed over the years were nothing more than "an honest mistake." Foster still faces tough floor opposition from G.O.P. presidential hopefuls Bob Dole and Phil Gramm...
...that withheld treatment from black men with syphilis. The two-day performance was a remarkable comeback for a nominee consigned just weeks ago to the valley of the shadow of death. By the end of last week, Foster had enough bipartisan support to break a threatened filibuster by Phil Gramm of Texas and Bob Smith of New Hampshire...