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Likewise with his campaign stump speech, which has the devilish thrust that Dole's so manifestly lacks. Not until you hear Buchanan go ballistic on immigration or trade can you fully grasp what the word "earshot" means. He has a different term for it: "going iambic," marshaling his punch lines into warrior poetry. "They are honed," he told TIME. "You work on it and you work on it and then you get the cheer line...
...multimillionaire lawyer whose ruthless intensity is nicely camouflaged by his courtly manner, carries a blue-ribbon resume. He served as Education Secretary to George Bush and earlier won acclaim as two-term Governor of Tennessee for reforming education and attracting high-paying jobs to his state. Alexander's stump speech touts a neopopulist plan to transfer $200 billion in federal programs ranging from welfare to law enforcement back to the states, communities, churches and families that handled those responsibilities before the New Deal...
...election as a contest between himself and Pat Buchanan. "This now is a race between the mainstream and the extreme," the Dole said. "It is a race between hope and fear. It's about freedom and it's about intolerance, which I will not tolerate." While Dole on the stump takes Buchanan to task, National Political correspondent Michael Duffy says that Lamar Alexander is the real target. "It's important now to pay attention to what Dole does, not what he says. Dole's strategy is to attack Buchanan in public, and attack Alexander in his ads. Buchanan's base...
Under the influence of supply-side guru Jude Wanniski, Forbes argues on the stump that, as was the case between World War II and the late 1960s, "we must tie the value of the dollar to a fixed measure, such as gold, so that a dollar today will be worth a dollar tomorrow." He also argues that using the gold standard to fix the dollar's value vis-a-vis other currencies would boost world trade...
...stump not long ago, Forbes had this to say when asked about China: "I read that if the average Chinese ate an extra egg every three days, it would take the entire grain production of Australia to feed the chickens that would have to lay those eggs. That's a big market. We've got to access it." Fair enough--but there's clearly more in his head than eggs, and if he ever permits himself to speak without a script on a steady basis, he might get closer to the job he wants...