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WHEN YOUR HUSBAND THROWS nearly $30 million at a Senate seat and has nothing to show for it but a hilltop stone mansion in Washington, what's a woman to do? For Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the answer has been to use will, charm and provocation to become one of the capital's leading conservative lights. "In the last few months, I started literally waking up with these columns," she purrs in a cadenced Greek accent. Prominent newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, have been happy to publish her. And while Senate majority leader Bob Dole, whom she's pronounced unelectable...
...Huffington has evolved from political wife to policy entrepreneur, a one-woman think tank with more clout than her husband Michael--an oil-company heir and former California Congressman--ever dreamed of. In one year, she has won her own weekly cable-TV talk show, co-hosted CNN's Crossfire, testified twice before Congress and become a "senior fellow" at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think tank associated with Newt Gingrich, where she heads up her own Center for Effective Compassion, which promotes private giving to replace the welfare state. With all that, she has become the goddess...
...many Republicans, Huffington was just a purveyor of gooey New Age political spirituality until she began to take on the leading G.O.P. candidate for President in a highly personal manner. On CNN early this month, she castigated Dole's rhetoric as old and tired, adding that "he had to read his opening and closing statements." Then she wrote an op-ed piece in the Journal that declared, "Leading a revolution means more than borrowing a bottle of Grecian Formula." Huffington wants Gingrich to be the nominee, though she seems willing to consider Colin Powell. "I believe only Newt Gingrich...
Republicans grumbled that Dole can hardly dub Clinton an invertebrate while he himself wiggles between principles. In a Wall Street Journal essay, Gingrich booster and political augurist Arianna Huffington called Clinton a "counterfeit" and Dole a "composite--a collage of positions determined by polling data and focus groups," and predicted that in a matchup, the counterfeit would win. The idea of that choice helps explain why voters tired of gamey party politics ache for the only candidate who has yet to say whether he belongs to a party...
...rivals laid a glove on him at the New Hampshire forum last week, the man who has run for President twice before was unable to explain why he was in the race without referring to a text. The lapse wasn't lost on Team Gingrich: Newt booster Arianna Huffington appeared on CNN Friday night and lit into Dole as "this tired old man" who had to "read from note cards...