07/12/99 - ASSOCIATED PRESS [7/11]   PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL TO SWING THROUGH LOUISIANA Republican presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan will make a two-day campaign swing through Louisiana this week.    Buchanan, 60, is making his third run at the White House. He'll stop in Avondale, Houma, Morgan City, Franklin and Alexandria on Monday. He'll be in Baton Rouge and Mandeville on Tuesday. The stops in the smaller towns are part of the former television commentator's national strategy, said Dottie Watson, the Louisiana director for the Buchanan 2000 campaign.    "We're building a network of folks all over the state," Watson said. "That's what Pat's strength is: grass roots. It's the people that vote, not the money. Everybody's talking about George (W.) Bush's money. Money doesn't buy you love"... In Houma, Buchanan will meet voters at Carlea's Catfish Shack.    "I figure he's a good Republican, a good conservative and in 10 minutes, he'll be a good Cajun," said David Curtis, who has owned the restaurant since December.    Will he get good Cajun food?    "The crawfish are hard, shrimp is out of season, so I'll recommend crab." Curtis laughed. "Actually, we'll probably have prime rib. We do pretty good prime rib." 07/12/99 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES   GOP FOES HIT PARTY FOR ATTACK ON SMITH - Senator will run on third-party ticket Three Republican presidential contenders - Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer and Pat Buchanan - yesterday criticized their party leaders for attacking Sen. Robert C. Smith of New Hampshire.    Mr. Smith, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, plans to announce tonight he will not seek the GOP nomination for president but instead will run on a third-party ticket. Republican National Chairman Jim Nicholson and other GOP leaders were sharply critical of Mr. Smith's planned defection. "The decision is a serious mistake for you personally, with only a marginal political impact and a counterproductive one at that," Mr. Nicholson wrote to Mr. Smith... Mr. Buchanan said, "The Republican establishment is doing its best right now to almost force a fracture in the GOP."    Mr. Buchanan, in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation," would not say whether he would support GOP front-runner George W. Bush if he becomes the party's nominee and would not "rule out" leaving the party to also run on a third-party ticket... Mr. Buchanan called Mr. Nicholson's letter to Mr. Smith "rude, insulting."    "It was arrogant, and ultimately I think it was very stupid ... If Smith were not going to leave, he probably sure is going to now," Mr. Buchanan said. Iowa GOP Chairman Kayne Robinson told The Washington Times yesterday that he and New Hampshire Chairman Stephen Duprey have abandoned plans to ask the remaining 11 GOP presidential candidates to sign a pledge to support the party's nominee.    "There was not much consensus for it among the other Republican National Committee members," he said. New Hampshire RNC member Tom Rath said in a phone interview yesterday that he and most RNC members had called the loyalty pledge a bad idea when Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Duprey and Mr. Robinson first raised it at a stormy closed-door committee meeting in Philadelphia on Friday... Mr. Rath, former New Hampshire attorney general, said some members at the meeting were "extremely angry" with Mr. Smith and wanted to take tough measures in retaliation. But others worried it would make him look like a martyr to grass-roots GOP conservative activists.    "I got up and told them that the worst thing you can do is overreact to what Smith is doing," Mr. Rath said. "Some others stood up and said let's not make it seem like we're ganging up on him."    Mr. Lott said he expects Mr. Smith to lose his committee chairmanship if he leaves the GOP, but also expects him to continue voting with the Senate GOP Conference... 07/12/99 - ASSOCIATED PRESS - KAREN GULLO   GOP DENOUNCED FOR ATTACK ON SMITH Several Republican presidential candidates say their party was wrong to attack Sen. Bob Smith of New Hampshire, who is expected to quit the GOP and run for president under a third party's banner.... Patrick Buchanan defended Smith's decision to bolt the party and blamed the GOP for the defection, saying it has abandoned conservative ideas... The bickering broke out Friday after Republican National Chairman Jim Nicholson and other GOP leaders sharply criticized Smith's planned defection, which he expects to announce this week.     The decision is a "serious mistake for you personally, with only a marginal political impact and a counterproductive one at that," Nicholson told Smith in a letter. "This would not be a case of the party leaving you, Bob, but rather of you leaving our party"... Nicholson's spokesman, Mike Collins, said Sunday that the chairman's letter was a "frank and honest expression of his disappointment that a principled, lifelong Republican would find it necessary to abandon the Reagan coalition and go his own way."     The only real political impact of Smith's defection would be to help the Democrats, Collins said. "It could possibly supply some marginal support for Al Gore"... Despite Bauer's outspokenness in defending Smith, he does not plan to follow suit and abandon the GOP. "I have absolutely no intention of leaving the Republican Party," he said Sunday through spokesman Tim Goeglein.   Bauer has urged Smith's supporters to remain in the party and join his campaign, Goeglein said. Buchanan said Nicholson's letter was "rude and insulting and ultimately very stupid."    "I think the handling of this has been appalling," Buchanan said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."    Buchanan said he would not rule anything out when asked whether he would consider ditching the GOP and running as a third-party candidate... 07/08/99 - REUTERS - YAHOO [7/7]   BUCHANAN SAYS GOOD SHOWING ESSENTIAL IN IOWA POLL Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan Wednesday predicted sudden death for candidates who fail to finish in the top five in the Iowa Republican Party's straw poll on August 14.    Buchanan, a third place finisher in the Iowa straw poll in August 1995, told reporters he wanted to emerge as the consensus candidate of conservatives. [WEBNOTE]  Well, not exactly "third place". Pat came in at second place after a long "behind closed doors" counting of the 10,000+ votes. We were all amazed at how Bob Dole and Phil Gramm came in with an exact tie for first place! "I think the main affect of your Iowa straw poll is basically ... the Grim Reaper is going to be waiting outside the gates of the Ames Fieldhouse and about five or six of those fellas may never survive that.   "I would not only include fellas. There's a possibility that women may get damaged here,'' Buchanan said, referring to Elizabeth Dole. Buchanan claims his own July 4 victory in a New Hampshire straw poll is an indicator he is the strongest conservative in that early primary state.    "I don't think any of those other candidates has a realistic chance,'' Buchanan said.   During taping of an Iowa Public Television program, Buchanan said front-runner George W. Bush, the Texas Governor, is the ideal foil for a Buchanan bid because he was the candidate of the "establishment." "We are going to have to engage Governor Bush on the issues ... and find out where he stands and what he believes,'' Buchanan said.   "From everything I know...you take foreign policy, you take China, you take Kosovo, you take immigration, you take right to life, Governor Bush is very, very close to Clinton and Gore and very very far away from me" ... 07/07/99 - THE BULLETIN'S FRONTRUNNER [7/6]   BUCHANAN WINS CONSERVATIVE NEW HAMPSHIRE STRAW POLL ... Dole and Bush campaign officials said they "that they did not want to ask their supporters to pay $25 each to demonstrate their support in the straw poll -- though they are doing just that in an upcoming Iowa straw vote."    Buchanan "won the straw poll with 646 votes," while Bauer "placed second with 235, and Smith was third with 104." The Manchester Union Leader (Cousineau) reported Buchanan "won a Presidential straw poll of conservative Granite Staters.providing a show of grassroots support.." Buchanan said, "This is a tremendous turnout of New Hampshire conservatives."    The Union Leader added that Buchanan's "victory, rumored for days, should give his campaign at least a momentary boost." The Buchanan and Bauer campaigns "worked hard to get out supporters while most other campaigns gave a token effort at best." But others "put less stock in the straw poll." Bruce Berke, state director for Rep. John Kasich, said, "We don't think July 4, 1999, in terms of straw polls means a lot vis-?-vis (primary day) Feb. 8, 2000." ... The speakers at the event "couldn't resist mention of Bush's stratospheric standing in the polls and in collecting campaign donations." Buchanan said, "We're not into coronations up here. We're into revolutions up here."... The Union Leader added that others receiving votes included Alan Keyes, 74; Dan Quayle, 16; Bush, 15; Kasich, nine; Forbes, eight; John McCain, six; Lamar Alexander, four; Dole, three; and Sen. Orrin Hatch, zero. Buchanan Dismisses Smith's Talk Of Third Party Run. The AP (7/5) reported Pat Buchanan is "dismissing Sen. Bob Smith's talk of making a third-party bid for the White House." In Wolfeboro, New Hampshire yesterday, Buchanan said he'd "rather see GOP candidates unite conservatives within 'a fighting second party -- the Republican party.'" Buchanan also said that while he and Smith "are competing for the same conservative votes, only he has proven he can win." Buchanan said, "I can win and I have won." He added that "winning a straw poll of conservative voters in Hopkinton on Sunday convinced him he can repeat his 1996 performance." 07/06/99 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES - INSIDE POLITICS   BUCHANAN'S VICTORY Pat Buchanan easily won the Presidential 2000 Primary Cookout in New Hampshire.    More than 1,100 showed up at the Hopkinton State Fairgrounds on Sunday to eat shish kebabs and potato salad and vote for their presidential favorite... Mr. Buchanan wound up with 646 votes, or 58 percent; Gary Bauer garnered 235 votes, or 21 percent; and New Hampshire Sen. Robert C. Smith came away with 104 votes, or 9 percent.    "This is a tremendous turnout of New Hampshire conservatives," said Mr. Buchanan, although Democrat Bill Bradley received two votes at the nominally nonpartisan event.    Vice President Al Gore received no votes... The three presidential speakers all took swipes at GOP front-runner George W. Bush, the Texas governor, who received only 15 votes. "We're not into coronations up here. We're into revolutions up here," Mr. Buchanan told the crowd... Other candidates receiving votes: Reagan administration U.N. official Alan Keyes, 74; former Vice President Dan Quayle, 16; Rep. John R. Kasich, 9; publisher Steve Forbes, 8; Sen. John McCain, 6; former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, 4; and former Labor and Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, 3. MORE FROM THE INTERNET BRIGADE NEWSWIRE...

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