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Gingrich refused to get used to it, and instead spent 10 full years methodically recruiting and training his own private army. "He was willing to go in and help these candidates that other people wouldn't touch," says conservative guru Paul Weyrich. "When they came here, who was it that they knew? Gingrich was their leader." Once he became Speaker, they supported all the House restructuring he proposed, not least because it gave them a more central role than any generation of congressional arrivistes in modern history...
Nevertheless, the Speaker of the House has neither done much nor said much to challenge his rich core constituency to shoulder more of the burden in curing poverty. His friend and sometime guru Arianna Huffington regularly urges her Republican friends to tithe 10% of their income to the poor. She has urged Gingrich to join her, but he has not. Nor has he explained why, even as the top marginal tax rate has fallen for the past 14 years, the taxpayers who have benefited the most--those who earn $125,000 or more a year--still give only...
...Several of the people Reed has sounded out for help recently are holding out--for Powell. And Dole insiders wonder whether Dole would even listen to anyone new. As a senior adviser put it, in the classic campaign argot of nouns-as-verbs: "What good is a guru Dole isn't going to guru from...
PROBING A STOCK GURU...
Clinton was also influenced by Dick Morris, the sometime Republican political consultant who has emerged this year as the President's favored guru. Although he has been credited with urging the President to the right lately, Morris worked on the speech with senior aide George Stephanopoulos, the more liberal adviser who oversaw the Administration's review. Says a senior White House official: "[Morris] knows Clinton has supported affirmative action his whole career and can't back away...