Word: patly
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...Since 1994 he has adopted tortured new positions on abortion and affirmative action. He promises a "fifth branch of the military" to patrol U.S. borders for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. And he allowed last week, in response to questions, that if he won the nomination, he would "consider" Pat Robertson, the loopy televangelist, as his running mate...
...THAT THE THREE leading presidential candidates in 1996 are Bill Clinton, Bob Dole and Pat Buchanan. Is there a precise way to express what's obvious, which is that they are utterly different kinds of people...
...product of Catholic schools, Pat Buchanan has some Lifer proclivities: he can communicate with people who play by the rules and have traditional beliefs at their core. What he really is, however, is a Talent. His stints in government have been brief and confined to the White House staff, a Lifer-free environment. He has spent most of his life as a highly successful small businessman who designs, manufactures and distributes opinions. Buchanan is brilliant at giving voice to the idea that the big, organized forces in society--everybody from big corporations to the United Nations--are a kind...
...PAT BUCHANAN ROSE IN THE POLLS IN IOWA, the Dole campaign began to panic--and to plot. It quietly added some new and pointed questions to its routine polling. Its telephone polltakers began asking hundreds of voters in New Hampshire whether they would be more or less inclined to vote for Buchanan if they knew he once said that women lacked "ambition and the will to succeed," and that South Korea, Taiwan and Japan should be armed with nuclear weapons. More than 70% of those polled said they would be less likely to vote for Buchanan. Thus a campaign...
...EXPECTED, THE END OF civilization as we know it was announced on the back pages. On Feb. 10, 1996, in Philadelphia, while America was distracted by the rise of Pat Buchanan, the fall of Phil Gramm and other trifles, something large happened. German philosophers call such large events world-historical. This was larger. It was species-defining. The New York Times carried it on page...