Word: kemp
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...opportunities attract big names. The list of would-bes, maybes and wannabes already includes former Vice President Dan Quayle, Senators Gramm and Bob Dole, ex-Cabinet members Jack Kemp, Dick Cheney, Jim Baker and Lamar Alexander and Governors Pete Wilson of California and William Weld of Massachusetts. (And maybe Pat Buchanan, the two-fisted talking head, but he's given little chance to last beyond the first primary.) Though the real campaign season won't begin until later, some of the big names were on display last weekend for one of the notable pre-season events: the Washington conference...
...support from the party's other two important bases, neither of which cares much about the main religious-right issues. One consists of neo-Reaganite economic conservatives more concerned with tax cuts and smaller government than with abortion and school prayer. It's in that group that Gramm and Kemp feel most at home. The other, which includes centrist Republicans of the Gerald Ford and George Bush variety, is the camp from which Dole, Cheney, Baker and Alexander all spring...
Party strategists give the same poor reading to the convention's major no- show, Jack Kemp, who once seemed likely to be the torchbearer of the Republican right. In their view it has been a mistake for Kemp to insist that the G.O.P. must reach out to minorities. "We've got to repeal the old Southern strategy of the 1960s and 1970s," says Kemp. "We need a new strategy based on asking black and minority men and women to vote Republican -- and give them a reason to vote Republican." However laudable, that's not a message to win the hearts...
...will Quayle be the nominee is '96? It is far too early to be able to make any realistic picks, but he appears to have as good a chance as anyone. Bob Dole is "old, cold" and he's been around forever. Jack Kemp appears to have little support from the party. Phil Gramm does not appear to have the following. Dick Cheney has been out of sight, though his name has been mentioned. Powell Baker? The list and arguments can go on for ever, but amazingly enough, Dan Quayle is in the running...
...longer chant '1940! 1940!" to indignant--and utterly defenseless--Rangers fans. As a lifelong Mets fan, the Yankees' success is equally painful. Especially because I spent a good part of my youth razzing my pinstripe-worshipping friends about George Steinbrenner gems such as Steve Trout, Steve Kemp and Steve Balboni...