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<title>
Dec. 10, 1990: Watch Your Back, George
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Dec. 10, 1990 What War Would Be Like
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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GRAPEVINE, Page 23
Watch Your Back, George
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<p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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<p> Conservatives are speaking more openly about the "nuclear
option," and it has nothing to do with the gulf crisis. That's
the code phrase true believers have given nascent plans to
mount a right-wing challenge to George Bush in 1992. The main
purpose of such a kamikaze mission would be to force Bush to
return to the fold on taxes. Activists, including American
Conservative Union chief David Keene and former Reagan
Administration official Don Devine, have convened several times
in secret to plot strategy. Two groups met last weekend, one in
Dallas and another in suburban Maryland, and talk of rebellion
is becoming more public. An upcoming article in the Heritage
Foundation's quarterly Policy Review recalls Teddy Roosevelt's
1912 Bull Moose challenge to fellow Republican William Howard
Taft, which resulted in a Democratic victory, and suggests such
an outcome might be preferable to the "betrayals of the Bush
Administration." G.O.P. hard-liners say they fear that if one
of their own does not challenge Bush, former Klansman David
Duke will try to become the right-wing standard-bearer.
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