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...POLES OF SUPPORT holding up Pat Buchanan are polar opposites. Bay, sister, spitfire campaign chairman, is the prototype of the postfeminist woman. She works round the clock, rears three kids on her own, yet insists that she's a traditionalist. Shelley, wife, constant campaign companion, is an unrepentant prefeminist. She defines herself almost exclusively through her husband and prefers it that way. For a premodern man like Pat, independence may be tolerable in a sister but never in a spouse...
...strategy, raising money, orchestrating commercials. Pat calls her every 30 minutes to check in. Bay is the personification of his barking inner voice, goading him to run for President, something she has been doing for a decade. Whereas Bay talks nonstop in her brother's rat-a-tat style, Shelley is painfully reticent. Her only public role is to smile serenely, sit behind the candidate onstage and form the visual punch line to one of his biggest applause getters: "I want to introduce the lady I intend to nominate to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...balcony, the veteran thespian appraising his audience. He walks to a holding room across the hall. From downstairs, the music of Pat's rousing fight song, with the refrain "Go, Pat, go!" fills the small room. He pantomimes a softshoe, smiles at his wife and says, "Come on, Shelley, they're playing our song." But Shelley, hugging the wall, resists his overture, and moments later, Pat Buchanan, the old-fashioned footlights throwing dramatic shadows across his face, is onstage declaiming his dark poetry of the angry and the aggrieved...
Onstage Buchanan plays the Victorian gallant when introducing his wife Shelley. "I want to introduce the lady I intend to nominate to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton," Buchanan says. Shelley sits onstage with a dreamy, sphinxlike smile. It was during Nixon's 1968 campaign that Buchanan worked shoulder to shoulder with Nixon's shy but capable secretary Shelley Scarney. He married the only child of a Detroit ophthalmologist...
...SHELLEY SCARNEY BUCHANAN The public knows virtually nothing about her--hey, that tactic has worked before...