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Dole's stunning defeat in New Hampshire to conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan was the major surprise in a presidential primary season which was over before the middle of March...
...Southerner. Former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell, 55, earned a big merit badge in March when he spearheaded Dole's pivotal victory over Pat Buchanan in the South Carolina primary. Campbell's backers say their man, a pro-business conservative who served two terms as Governor, would help the party hold its base in the South while freeing Dole to concentrate on the Midwest. Maybe so, but Dole seems more interested in luring him to a high job in his campaign--raising money, coordinating strategy and making speeches...
...snickering in February when Republican candidate Pat-the-Populist-Buchanan connected with some voters by lashing out at big corporations. AT&T and its highly paid chairman, Robert Allen, became Buchanan's favorite whipping boys after the company announced a three-way breakup that would eliminate 40,000 jobs...
...Buchanan actually talks some sense when he refuses to consider exceptions in the cases of rape or incest. If the fetus is a human life, then its survival trumps everything else, except the life of the mother. The circumstances under which it was conceived are irrelevant. As Buchanan's campaign manager was quoted a few days ago in The New York Times, "You wouldn't say that you could kill a 1-year-old child because it was conceived in a rape...
...think Pat Buchanan threatens to lead the Republican party in the entirely wrong direction," Zerhouni says. "His message of division, hatred and pessimism has no place in respectable politics...