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<text id=93TT2445>
<title>
Feb. 08, 1993: Southern Comfort
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
NATION, Page 16
Southern Comfort
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<p>Republicans elect a smooth conciliator as party chairman
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<p> Out in the wilderness for only a few months, the Republican
Party is sorely in need of a new Moses. After a tense five-way
contest, a badly divided G.O.P. chose Haley Barbour as its
national chairman, charging the portly Mississippian with the
daunting task of bringing together moderates, conventional
conservatives and a right wing fixated on "family values,"
notably abortion.
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<p> A committee member from Yazoo City, and a Washington
lobbyist, Barbour, 45, was conservative enough to serve as a
Reagan adviser but smooth enough to attract the support of
country-club Republicans anxious to check the influence of the
religious right, whose delegates favored former Missouri
Governor John Ashcroft or party tactician Spencer Abraham.
Rather than flock under ideological banners, however, most of
the R.N.C. members avoided ideology. The loudest applause of the
day came when Rich Bond, the G.O.P.'s retiring chairman, urged
that the 1996 platform drop its strict antiabortion plank.
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