Correspondence
Correspondence TOO BIG FOR NEW JERSEY DAVID FRUM’S SUGGESTION that Steve Forbes should consider running for the New Jersey Senate seat in 2000, instead of running for president, would make sense...
...Sara Jane olson," had been a "great citizen of our community...
...KENNETH BLACKWELL National Chairman, Forbes Campaign Alexandria, VA GO BUNNY GO...
...GAIL MADDEN CINCINNATI, OH HURRICANE HOOPLA THE SCRAPBOOK'S STATEMENTS accusing the news media of hyping Hurricane Floyd's impending danger as "premature, ill-advised, and draconian" and causing unnecessary mass evacuations ("Hurricane Hysteria," Sept...
...Goldwater's character was belittled, his mental capacity questioned, and he was charged with being anti-Semitic...
...Perhaps his true home is with the Reform party and its gadfly leadership...
...These helicopters are always available to the U.S...
...In the Iowa straw poll, a solid majority, 56 percent of the 25,000 voters, cast their votes for a candidate who had never held public office before...
...But I shouldn't be surprised, after my experience in '64, with the above-mentioned pundits being at it again...
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...GALVIN SEVERN, MD WHILE WORKING in the trenches for Barry Goldwater in 1964, I saw him attacked not only by the Democrats, but viciously so by pundits friendly to the GOP as well as by the GOP itself (the Rockefeller wing...
...In the meantime, I would also advise you not to use your influence to encourage others to ignore hurricane warnings...
...Kaplan and others who write in The Weekly Standard are often full of fine ideas about how our Army could intervene more heavily to staunch the flow of blood in places like East Timor and Kosovo...
...That’s what America needs, that’s what the voters are looking for...
...He used his allies to cancel the Florida straw vote and the primary in Delaware...
...For me, the lives of North carolinians will always be more precious than those of East Timorese or Kosovars...
...They want someone who will stand firm for better health care, and speak out against new interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve...
...We look forward to a long and vigorous campaign, and the sooner we engage in a real issues debate with specific solutions, the better off we will be...
...Steve Forbes led the outsider vote and the conservative vote...
...senator from New Jersey is not as effective at leading the United States as the president...
...Unfortunately, this is the only voting contest of this year—of the Bush campaign’s choosing...
...We apologize for the error...
...WILLIAM KRISTOL’S EDITORIAL describing Pat Buchanan’s estrangement and almost certain departure from the GOP was right on (“Pat the Bunny,” Sept...
...Republicans want someone who will speak out in favor of less government, not embrace the status quo...
...Pat should leave, and Republicans, especially conservatives, should wish him Godspeed...
...These unfortunate misadventures make him a liability to the GOP...
...Voters need a strong Republican primary contest so they know their candidate can stand up in the general election and win in November...
...Nonetheless, the GOP will be well advised not to abandon many of the social policies he has championed...
...ROBERT FAIRCHILD HAMPTON, VA CORRECTION AN ARTICLE by Elliott C. Rothenberg in our July 20 issue ("The Terrorist Next Door") mistakenly attributed to Jay Benanav of the St...
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...Steve Forbes found Frum’s comments personally flattering, but unfortunately a U.S...
...We cannot let that happen again...
...Army for national and international deployment...
...KEVIN R. YODER HOLLISTON, MA BEING A CONSERVATIVE Democrat, I never thought I would have anything in common with a conservative Republican magazine, but I have a growing respect and admiration for the courage and integrity of William Kristol...
...What is a little inconvenience compared to the possibility of lost lives and property...
...Maybe the voters are tired of career politicians...
...Now, unfortunately, the effectiveness of his message has been damaged by his increasingly strident isolationism and protectionism, his recent statements regarding the inadvisability of U.S...
...This is why Governor Bush has refused to debate...
...I will read your "dinky little magazine," as Pat Buchanan called it, because anything Buchanan dislikes that much can't be all bad...
...The next president must be not another moderate politician, but a conservative with character, such as Steve Forbes...
...He refused to attend the Florida Candidate Forum...
...Also interesting to see is how much support he can command from the rank and file Reform party members, a diverse group who generally don't share Pat's socially conservative views...
...I had hoped better of Kris-tol and The Weekly Standard...
...I certainly don't agree with all of Buchanan's views, but it is really hard to see him vilified by Kristol, George Will, John McCain, et al...
...Maybe Floyd wasn't "the storm of the century," but try telling that to thousands of North Carolinians who lost everything, including their families...
...27) show you to be shallow, self-centered, and irresponsible...
...The Iowa straw poll told us that when the voters are focused, they want a conservative with Steve Forbes’s character...
...I strongly advise others to do the same...
...Instead, conservatives must rise up as we did in 1980 and elect our candidate, Steve Forbes, president...
...The statement was actually made by a legislative aide to Mr...
...Correspondence TOO BIG FOR NEW JERSEY DAVID FRUM’S SUGGESTION that Steve Forbes should consider running for the New Jersey Senate seat in 2000, instead of running for president, would make sense if Forbes had not placed such a strong second to George W. Bush in the Iowa straw poll (“How Steve Forbes Can Win Big,” Sept...
...They want someone who won’t just wait after years of failure, and then only tinker at the edges of school choice...
...Pat has been, in my opinion, the premier spokesman for us social conservatives, and has accurately articulated the causes of our moral and political morass...
...And now, reading william Kristol's and others' commentary doing the same to Pat Buchanan, it's AUH2O déjà vu...
...In the last two presidential cycles, the moderate establishment has led the Republican party down the road of defeat...
...He has been a standard bearer for the conservative movement for decades, and his supporters are the vital grassroots activists that the GOP cannot afford to lose...
...They want someone who is willing to lead and take a clear stand for cutting taxes, and not silently sit by while the president promises a veto...
...KENNETH E. WYMAN HUNTSVILLE, AL I DON'T UNDERSTAND why conservatives like William Kristol are trying so hard to get rid of Pat Buchanan...
...Forbes exceeded expectations, and George W. Bush came up far short of his much trumpeted expectations...
...I can see why Republicans would go after him when and if he left the party, but this attempt to run him out is intolerable...
...Remember the track record of moderate Republican nominees—Dewey, Ford, Bush, and Dole...
...And it’s not for THE WEEKLY STANDARD to decide...
...ANNA SENN GREENSBORO, NC HELPFUL HELICOPTERS WHILE LAWRENCE KAPLAN complains about the congressional Republicans' insistence on allocating funds for National Guard helicopters, this week those same aircraft are being used by citizen-soldiers to save fellow Americans from drowning in North carolina ("Who Now Loathes the Military...
...it’s for the voters to decide...
...However, the campaign is just beginning...
...Too bad...
...But our Army is too small to engage in all the conflicts you would like while remaining ready for a major war...
...These are not the signs of someone who is going to win, but of someone who is going to watch and squander the lead he has in the polls against Vice President Gore or even Bill Bradley...
...The voters respond to his message of less government, and of change in Washington...
...Anytime the weather station says a hurricane of any strength is coming—or may be coming—my way, I am leaving...
...Benanav...
...Obviously, you have never experienced the erratic wrath of a full hurricane, or you would realize that there is no way to accurately predict its path or its destructive potential...
...Conservatives cannot afford to sit back and see their principles sacrificed...
...world war involvement plus other off-the-wall ramblings, and by the widely held perception that he is an anti-Semite...
...Paul, Minn., city council the statement that Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Kathleen Soliah, a.k.a...
Vol. 5 • October 1999 • No. 4
