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Trump is not the only big name hovering at the party's edge. Buchanan, former Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker, Ross Perot and Warren Beatty--each, along with Trump, has considered (casually, at least) a run. And why not? With more than $12 million in federal matching funds and, perhaps, a chance to be in the presidential debates, the party's nomination is the stage for an angry voice. There's no ideological price of admission. The party, founded by Perot, welcomes earnest centrists eager for entitlement reform as well as anti-new world order conspiracists. So each potential candidate, from...
...Trump wants it, then it's good news for George W. Bush. For months Bush has been worried about Buchanan's entering the race as a spoiler who would pull conservative votes from George W. the same way Perot stymied his dad. Indeed, a prominent G.O.P. source tells TIME that a Bush envoy visited Minneapolis recently and spoke to Ventura allies about the Reform Party nomination. The envoy didn't explicitly push a Trump candidacy or a Ventura run--something the Minnesota Governor has officially ruled out. But the envoy did ask if Ventura would fight a Buchanan...
...argument for a American third party in years, maybe ever, and it gets to the heart of what the Reform party needs to be to find the voters and constituencies that are sick of the system: issue-driven and intellectually inviting. The debate over reform has advanced beyond Ross Perot's jug-eared, wild-eyed peek under the hood; it has also advanced beyond ? or, rather, never really included ? Buchanan's willful, calculated ignorance of the rules of economic and political success in the modern world. We are up to specifics, up to intra-system mavericks like Bradley and McCain...
...most powerful nation in the world, Ventura is a free-trader who will not court the protectionists for easy votes. At a time when the morality hawks are looking desperately for a Faust, Ventura is resolutely pro-choice. He also knows that in the eyes of the larger electorate, Perot and Buchanan are men to stand apart from. He does not want them taking control of his party and relegating him to the Valley of the Cranks...
...slow-but-insistent move back to the center under George W. Bush. With a Reform party nod, Buchanan gets a brand-new pan-partisan forum for his populism ? in his third go-round, his act is wearing thin with GOP voters ? and a brand-new war chest. (Thanks to Perot's 9 percent showing in 1996, the Reform nominee is guaranteed $12.6 million in federal money, far more than Buchanan has been able to raise this year.) But what does the Reform party get? A candidate who, undeniably, has a shot at mobilizing not only far-right Republicans with...