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...liberals who talk with James L. Buckley come away mildly dazed by his charm and intelligence. They may also wish that he were one of them. As the somewhat improbable candidate of New York's growing Conservative Party, Buckley, 47, the elder brother of Polemicist William F. Buckley Jr., has begun to glimpse the possibility that he might be sitting in the U.S. Senate next January...
...woebegone history of most third-party movements in the U.S., the leftward alignments of Buckley's two opponents offer him a rare chance to recruit support from both Republican and Democratic conservatives. Incumbent Senator Charles Goodell was a moderate-conservative upstate Congressman when Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed him to the Senate after Robert Kennedy's assassination...
...mild, pipe-smoking manner, has infuriated many G.O.P. leaders by becoming an insistent crusader in the antiwar movement. Such Republicans see virtually no choice between Goodell and Democratic Representative Richard Ottinger, who is similarly opposed to the war. Aggressively liberal, Ottinger has pulled ahead of Goodell and Buckley in early polls...
...Buckley's conservatism and personal appeal may attract many organization Democrats fed up with "permissive liberalism." Buckley and his party, however, still have very far to go. In the 1968 Senate race on the Conservative ticket, he pulled 17% of the vote in New York, where politics for decades has generally been centerleft...
Apart at the Seams. Buckley's basic message is clear enough: "Education, not revolution," on the campuses, "peace, not surrender, in Viet Nam." Cambodia, he says, "was a damn successful operation." Buckley is, as he often points out, the one candidate who backs the President...