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This profound struggle for the party's soul was on display last week in Dallas. A group of young Turk conservatives led by Congressmen Jack Kemp of New York and Newt Gingrich of Georgia took control of the party platform committee and installed some of the rightists' favorite planks. Even such respected G.O.P. Senate leaders as Robert Dole of Kansas and Howard Baker of Tennessee were shoved to the side and largely ignored. The two camps sniped at each other in interviews during the convention week, challenging each other's views of the party's future...
...CONS. In contrast to the weary pragmatists of the Senate, the young Turks of the House, such as Gingrich, Kemp and Platform Committee Chairman Trent Lott of Mississippi, have the clear-eyed look of true believers. No wilted shirt collars in this group. With hair carefully styled and blow-dried, they look like local-news anchormen. Television is, in fact, their medium. Its cameras are permitted in the House (unlike the stodgier Senate), and the young Turks unabashedly perform for the C-SPAN telecasts of floor debates. A Democratic majority still runs the House, so the Republicans are freer...
Unfazed by such criticism, the young Turks are willing to take chances. Gingrich, who calls himself a "visionary conservative," wants a re-elected Reagan to launch a "dynamic, audacious first 100 days reminiscent of Roosevelt's first term." Their biggest gamble would be to ignore the pleas of the pragmatists, who insist that a tax hike is necessary to reduce the deficit. Supply-Side Apostles Kemp and Gingrich not only oppose a tax increase but would cut taxes even more. The reward, they insist, would be unprecedented economic growth. The deficit would diminish as increased revenues poured in, without...
That horrified the party's conservative firebrands, led by Congressmen Jack Kemp of New York, Vin Weber of Minnesota and Newt Gingrich of Georgia. They proposed to lock the door tight by inserting a comma after the word taxes...
...floor every day after legislative hours to berate the Democrats. The chamber was invariably empty during these "special orders" sessions, but like all other action on the floor, they were broadcast live by the cable network CSPAN. What set O'Neill aflame was a bit of showboating by Gingrich; during a fiery denunciation of several Democrats' views on Central America, he paused suggestively in midspeech, as if to dare his foes to respond. In fact, he was taunting empty benches, but that was not noted by C-SPAN's cameras, which were allowed to focus only...