Word: pitchfork
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...Thursday when the Manchester Union Leader, the conservative newspaper which wields considerable influence among the state's Republican voters, labeled the Texas governor "a nice guy but an empty suit with no philosophical underpinning," and endorsed Steve Forbes. But even if Granite State conservatives have passed the pitchfork to Forbes, the state looks unlikely to give him the same upset victory it gave Buchanan in 1996. Score this round a draw...
...skinny, resourceful farm kid in Missouri, Mulkey used the head of a post maul as a shot put, a plow disk as a discus, a pitchfork handle as a javelin. He cut a bamboo tree into a pole and vaulted onto the garage. That was the beginning of a career that took him to the 1960 Olympics in Rome. Going into the finals in the decathlon, he needed only to clear his usual height of 14 ft. 10 in., in the pole vault to win a bronze medal. But he pulled a groin muscle and had to withdraw...
...scraps of the Republican and Democratic feast as a pundit ? but precious little as a wannabe pol ? wants to switch. The battle is on for the soul of Ross Perot's brainchild, and the question being asked by the more serious elements in the Ventura camp is whether Pitchfork Pat has a reformist bone in his body. "I haven't heard his political reform agenda," Minnesota Reform party chairman Dean Barkley told the Washington Post. "I still see him having that abortion issue and that social agenda on the front burner, and I still say if he continues...
...some blacks seem willing to "pander to Jews" (Fulani is black). Buchanan, meanwhile, is a virulent protectionist and anti-immigrationist (and ex-Nixon speechwriter) who never met a panderer he didn't like (though not to the Jews ? he once called Congress "Israeli-occupied territory"). Just the fact that Pitchfork Pat can make this type of alliance should warn the Reform party away from...
...conservatism but also labor-union Democrats with his insistent immigrant-bashing and mind-boggling trade protectionism. Those within the Reform ranks who support a Buchanan candidacy tout Pat as the man to take the party to "the next level." But to Ventura, Buchanan is a "retread," and to Weicker, Pitchfork Pat's "next level" is the end of the line. "Look at their track record," Weicker told CNN on Monday, referring to the far-right Buchanan ilk. "They took over the Republican party and made a shambles...