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...opening words of Fine's speech--a reference to the political debacle of Ross Perot running-mate James Stockdale in his debate with AlGore and Dan Quayle--resurrected almost verbatim the speech of John A. Mann '92-'94 when he ran for vice president last year...
...first a question: Can a man brilliant at bullying have a vision? "Gingrich is a great communicator," says pollster Frank Luntz, a Republican who worked for Ross Perot in 1992. "He knows what it takes to say the right thing and do the right thing to get us a majority. He is Ronald Reagan, only smarter." Preparing for his performance on the Capitol steps last week, Gingrich has had Luntz conduct focus groups every 10 days since January. And two weeks before he paraded his "Republican Contract with America," he held what a participant called a "serious, intense" dinner...
Remember when off-again presidential candidate Ross Perot told supporters to give the "rehabilitated" Democratic Party a chance in the summer of 1992? Now he's urging the remnants of his grass-roots United We Stand America to back the Republicans. "I have a simple proposal for the American people," Perot said last night on his favorite platform, CNN's "Larry King Live." All they have to do, he said, is vote only G.O.P. in November's House and Senate races, then let a Republican Congress drive for a few years. Idle chatter? TIME Washington contributor Laurence I. Barrett says...
Though Lamar Alexander, who is pro-choice, didn't make the same foot- stomping hit with the Christian Coalition, he's been tooling his appeal to a no-less-important group: Perot voters. The former Tennessee Governor has made a name for himself with a bumper-sticker-friendly attack on Congress: CUT THEIR PAY AND SEND THEM HOME. For the past six months he has also been the host of a monthly TV program on Republican issues relayed around the country by a satellite hookup. It may be no threat to Seinfeld, but it's the kind of show that...
...Majority, published in 1969, correctly forecast that the postwar Democratic dominance of presidential politics was over. Two decades and five books later, 1990's The Politics of Rich and Poor announced that the Republicans, in turn, would be turned out in a wave of neopopulism -- and, thanks to Ross Perot and Bill Clinton, out they went...