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That's partly why the real winner last week may well have been Dole. In hindsight, his strategy looks exquisitely wise. He was the one who first agreed to end the shutdown, despite howls from the House and charges of treason from campaign rivals like Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan. By Friday, when the House reversed course, Dole not only looked statesmanlike; he had also diminished Gingrich as a rival on his right and distanced himself from his party's extremists. At the same time, he had acquired a weapon to carry through the rest of the campaign against Clinton...
This could be bad news for Dole, whose lead in the polls is big but shaky. In caucus states like Iowa, where voting takes more effort, conservative activists have disproportionate impact. The passionate supporters of such candidates as Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan are sure to vote, so a low turnout by moderates could hurt Dole, give a runner-up some surprising strength and turn the primary season into a real contest...
...going to beat Bill Clinton by being moderate." --Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), responding to a question at the debate between GOP presidential candidates in Columbia, S. C., was quoted in the Boston Globe...
They went in something of a competitive spirit. Since 1981, when a South Carolina couple named Phil and Linda Lader first hosted Renaissance Weekend at Hilton Head, the event has become the hottest New Year's ticket in America. Originally limited to 60 families, most from the South, Renaissance exploded into public consciousness when it served as a social launching pad for an ambitious Arkansas Governor named Bill Clinton. By the '90s, the intellectually stimulating but marginally too empathetic convocation of Volvo-driving superachievers was drawing six Southern Governors, a Supreme Court Justice and a waiting list of hundreds...
Forbes is pushing a pure flat tax, with a rate of 17% and the elimination of all deductions, but that is proving too severe for most of the rest of the field. G.O.P. candidates Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan back the general idea but say the mortgage-interest and charitable-donation deductions are too popular to end. Dole and Lamar Alexander have been cagier about how flat and how free of exceptions their plans would be. Forbes sneers at his rivals, "They are responding to a poll rather than to conviction." But their views show a respect for recent history...