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...stand and fought for votes on every major issue of the past half-century, even some supporters say they don't know what he stands for. It is a politician's worst nightmare: Dole's own internal polls show that voters know what Pat Buchanan believes in, what Phil Gramm would fight for. A senior adviser to the Dole campaign was brutal in his private assessment: "If you ask Dole today, 'What's your message?' he'll say, 'Tenth Amendment, family values, preserve, protect and defend.' He's got the mantra down--it just doesn't mean anything...
With Gingrich too in the wings, the Dole campaign is running scared. "It's the job of the front runner to be disciplined and put the nervousness aside and stay on message," goads Charlie Black, Phil Gramm's general chairman. "But they're panicked and they're overreacting to a lot of things." A peek inside the vast, well-oiled Dole operation shows signs of fear and frustration. Campaign sources say that Dole booted his top field organizer, Jill Hanson, off his campaign plane and narrowed her portfolio in the wake of the disastrous tie with Phil Gramm last August...
...terms of us vs. them--into second place in the polls, just behind Senate majority leader Bob Dole. After a long time of hand-to-mouth electioneering, Buchanan earlier this month also claimed second place in the money race, surpassing the third-quarter fund raising of formidable fund raiser Phil Gramm...
Listen closely to the other candidates, and it is easy to conclude that Buchanan has, in one sense, already won. When Bob Dole denounces Hollywood sleazemongers, when Phil Gramm's pollster tells him to talk more about "fair trade, not free trade," when Arlen Specter starts to peddle a flat tax and Lamar Alexander blasts congressional pensions, Buchanan gets to lean back in the rented van that drives through the north country of New Hampshire and revel in remaking the Republican Party in his own image. This has become the Buchanan Effect. "All the candidates are responding...
...claim to be grappling with America's most heartfelt economic problem is on the party's fringe? One answer is that this issue has mainstream Republicans flummoxed. A close look at the logic of income inequality and stagnant wages suggests that the ideology of people like Bob Dole and Phil Gramm may leave them at least as "impotent" on the issue as Clinton, if not more so. And a close look at Buchanan's attempt to fashion a maverick Republican cure for the problem only underscores that prospect...