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...Beasley and top G.O.P. operative Warren Tompkins--was less concerned about redefining Bush as a reformer than about turning McCain into a liberal or, as one of them put it, "worse than a Democrat." "McCain's not an outsider," said one. "He's an insider. When I hear this populist stuff, it makes me wanna throw...
Neither. McCain is an old kind of Republican--to be precise, he is several old kinds of Republican rolled into one. He grabs various strands of Republicanism and doesn't worry when they contradict. He's a self-styled populist and a free-trading internationalist, a noisy reformer who keeps his hands off business and has corporate lobbyists raising money for him. He picks an assortment of G.O.P. role models and invites them to rumble inside his head...
McCain's thumping victory in New Hampshire has reined in much of Governor Bush's lead in South Carolina, with polls showing them running neck-and-neck. And it's predictably drawn a huge infusion of cash to his campaign, but its source underlines the sheen of populist crusade his campaign is beginning to assume: The McCain campaign reported Thursday receiving $810,000 since Monday via its web site, carrying it to an online fund-raising total of $2.2 million. And almost half of that has come from first-time political donors. Of course, that's small change compared with...
...wing in power - and Austria being a democracy, they got their way despite unprecedented international pressure to keep Jorg Haider's Freedom party out of government. President Thomas Klestil Thursday agreed to swear in a coalition government Friday comprising the mainstream conservative People's party and the anti-immigrant populist party led by a man whose previous statements sympathetic to Third Reich policies and to the notorious Waffen SS have caused Israel, the U.S. and European countries to threaten to isolate Austria. "President Klestil admitted yesterday that his hands were tied," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Andrew Purvis...
...Inferno for il gran rifiuto (the great refusal), albeit only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo. Other pontiffs have been removed by murder, martyrdom, military intervention or rare coups by the College of Cardinals during pagan rule, the confusion of the Dark Ages, Byzantine meddling, populist revolutions or chronic political impotence. But what would happen if one of the most significant successors of St. Peter in the past 100 years were to give up his throne...