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...will win the nomination, he would not press Pat Buchanan or Steve Forbes to drop out of the race. "I've never been very good at putting pressure on people. There will come a time when someone needs to reach out to both of the remaining candidates." House Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman think that time has already come. Whitman, a longtime friend of Forbes, said his flat-tax plan would have a better chance of being a part of the GOP platform if Forbes would withdraw from the race. Gingrich said Buchanan is only...
...surprising that no one else seemed concerned about the possibility of an abduction. A couple of months ago, Democratic Congressmen were looking forward to running against Newt, linking their opponents to someone whose negative ratings were creeping toward the area once occupied exclusively by Saddam Hussein. How can you run against someone who's off in a spaceship having his bodily fluids removed and his orifices probed...
...Newt's interest in subjects like futurism and life on other planets is thought to be his most endearing quality by people who think he has endearing qualities. But believing in the possibility of extraterrestrials can make you a target for abduction, in the way ordering by mail puts you on a lot of mailing lists...
...other hand, Newt Gingrich, a confessed Trekkie who looks as if he has bodily fluids to spare, is a perfect target for abduction. Once the Speaker disappeared, I passed the word to people I know who believe in alien visitors: "If you run into any extraterrestrials, ask them if they're holding a sort of pudgy white-haired guy who can't keep his mouth shut...
...occurs to me that they might have been. After all, the abductees I saw on Nova are back, and there's no way to tell by looking at them that they'd ever been drained and probed and messed about with. Maybe Newt really has been on a spaceship. If so, I think we're going to hear about...