Word: patly
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Governor George W. Bush should be helping Pat Buchanan out of the Republican Party rather than begging him to stay in it. In recent years, Republican primaries have witnessed candidates sprinting to the right to win the Republican nomination and then trying to move towards the center before the presidential election...
Because of his abnormally large lead so early in the primaries, Bush does not need to go towards the right and can offer the moderate republican image from the beginning of the race. In 1996, Bob Dole was stuck in a close race for the republican nomination with Pat Buchanan. Buchanan won the New Hampshire primary, in some respects forcing the Republican Party to adopt an extremely conservative platform...
Bush has not allowed his opponents' hard-line stances draw him away from his precious middle ground. However, Bush's recent attempts to keep Pat Buchanan in the Republican Party make people question how moderate he really is. He is also letting a great opportunity slip away...
...governor's comments have prompted the outgoing chair of the Reform Party, Rusell Verney, to call for Ventura to quit the party. Religious leaders are understandably upset; Pat Robertson diplomatically said Ventura was "off his rocker" at a Christian Coalition convention last week. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) called Ventura a "bigot." As his comments were reported in Minnesota over the weekend, Ventura's approval ratings fell 19 points. But Ventura's numbers are still high; 54 percent of Minnesotans approve of the job Ventura is doing as governor...
...markets had factored in a no-hike with a neutral bias, so this was a sell-off on the surprise," he says. "But when they realize that no hike is still no hike, they?ll get over it." They?ll have time ? Baumohl expects the Fed to stand pat on the bias all the way until spring, thus making sure there?s plenty of money lying around in the credit markets for any Y2K foofaraw. Of course, unjustified fretting is always a possibility...