Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buchanan has made it clear he is not about to stand around while party leaders maneuver around him. If anything, many Republican leaders assume Pat won't win but worry that Dole and Alexander will hit too hard at a candidate who has found a willing audience among the very voters the party needs most to carry both the presidential and the congressional elections this fall. Buchanan lost no time reminding the elders of this. In Tucson, Arizona, last Thursday, he stopped just short of declaring war on his party: "I would urge my critics and opponents to stick...
...SAYS BOB DOLE HAS GOT "NO ideas." And Pat Buchanan has got the "wrong" ones. But walking the path of hubris that led Gary Hart off a cliff in 1988, Lamar Alexander insists he alone has the "new ideas" a new millennium deserves. So goes the sound bite. But Alexander's signature proposals don't always live up to their billing. Many have been kicked around for years, dropped as unwise, shirk the tough calls or come with so few details that they raise more questions than they answer...
These are two of the more dangerous manifestations of what has become patently obvious: there are simply too many of us out there. When Pat Buchanan leaped from his van in New Hampshire exclaiming, "Real voters! Real people!," dozens of journalists instantly surrounded him as he reached for the hand of a single terrified citizen. Viewed from across the street, it looked as if Buchanan had suddenly gone berserk, seized a hostage and was being followed by a SWAT team...
...there is one dim ray of hope this year, it came from the campaign of Pat Buchanan. The New Hampshire victor did very little face-to-face glad-handing. He was, however, more than happy to invite the press in to watch him reach voters the new-fashioned way: recording commercials, videotaping commercials, even writing commercials. His other prime method of communication was decidedly old-fashioned: the speech at the rostrum, where audiences came not to shake his hand but to listen to what...
...early 19th century's Know-Nothings, with their hatred and fear of Catholics and immigrants, anchored a lineage that ran through the Ku Klux Klan to Michigan's Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s, with his anti-Semitic radio broadcasts and sympathetic sermonettes about Hitler and Mussolini. Pat Buchanan wants Americans to recover their sense of shame about things like sex and pornography. But he is worse than oblivious to the political sewage. It is the medium he has chosen to swim...