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...down between us and said, 'We need y'all to have a meeting today to vote'" on the bill containing full-family sanctions. As Maxey tells it, Smith then said, "We think we need to adopt the Governor's welfare reform. The Governor needs sanctions to protect himself against Pat Buchanan in the primaries." Smith says he told them only that Buchanan would have a "heyday" with their welfare proposal...
...Bush has at least one distinction as Governor: since he took office in 1995 his state has seen more executions--119--than any other. Just as he was beginning his presidential campaign in 1998, the case of convicted murderer Karla Faye Tucker came up for review. Religious leaders from Pat Robertson to the Pope pleaded with Bush to spare Tucker. Like Bush himself, she had found Christ in midlife. He could have issued a 30-day reprieve and signaled to the parole board that Tucker should be granted clemency. He didn't. Although he said he was anguished...
...some sort of alliance - based primarily on their opposition to Bush's campaign." TIME political correspondent John Dickerson, also on the road in South Carolina, sees Bauer's choice as a not-so-subtle poke at rival Christian conservatives. "There's a deep-seated tension between the Ralph Reed?Pat Robertson wing of the Christian right and the Gary Bauer wing," says Dickerson. "Bauer sees Reed and Robertson as promoting a caricature of social conservatism, and he wants to break from that." Bauer threw his weight behind McCain, Dickerson adds, in response to Reed and Robertson's attempt to tear...
...this would appear to be a welcome endorsement for Bush - especially in conservative South Carolina, where Bush and McCain are engaged in a neck-and-neck race for this Saturday's Republican presidential primary - it leaves him in a tricky position. He risks being seen as too cozy with Pat Robertson's ultra-conservative organization when he knows the coalition's positions on abortion and other hot-button social issues are unlikely to fly with many of the voters he needs to get elected come November...
Though Robertson's group bears little resemblance to the political powerhouse it was in the 1980s, it is still treated with some reverence in staunchly conservative South Carolina. And possibly in response to their diminished circumstances - "At this point, Pat Robertson is on the outskirts of influence," says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson - the coalition is making a determined move to be heard, stamping its proverbial foot and demanding attention from the GOP candidates. So Bush is left still dealing with a quandary that first surfaced during January's Iowa caucus, when he found himself pushed into conservative positions...