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A pageant of potential Republican presidential candidates, in a weekend warmup act for the 2000 campaign, highlighted GOP fixtures that could pit the Washington establishment against the likes of Quayle and Alexander—self-styled "outsiders" from the inside.
Lamar Alexander has been Tennessee's governor, George Bush's education secretary and a failed presidential candidate. Yet he, too, solemnly swears, "You can't call me a Washington insider."
INDIANAPOLIS — He spent four years in the House of Representatives, eight in the United States Senate and a bumpy term inside the White House. Yet Dan Quayle said with a straight face, "I am an outsider."
Quayle set the tone at the Midwest Republican Leadership Conference. Delivering a passionate address to about 1,000 activists on the conference's first day, the former vice president accused Republican congressional leaders of overly accommodating President Clinton in the budget process.
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Coming just two hours after House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia defended the deal before the same audience, Quayle's remarks sent a signal to GOP congressional leaders who hope to run for president: Watch your back.
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"I'm afraid that the taxpayers once again got the shaft," he said.
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Quayle talked about his new home in Phoenix and his fights against Washington establishment.
—Alexander, whose homey plaid shirts were a 1996 campaign cliche, stressed that he only lived in Washington for a few years.
Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi and Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, who was instrumental in the budget negotiations, are considering presidential bids.
—Jack Kemp, the GOP's vicepresidential nominee last year, took the conference's only direct shot at Gingrich, criticizing the speaker's call for a second "Contract with America" for 2000.
Yet the budget debate underscores the problem facing Gingrich and other GOP leaders who still will have to deal with a Democratic president to get anything done the next three years.
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The hopefuls found other ways to bolster their outsider-oriented messages.
"He really ought to focus on the re-election of Congress in 1998 and the issues important to Republican voters then." he said.
The trio's names rarely were evoked, but presidential hopefuls who paraded before Midwest Republicans took steady aim at the leadership's work.
Thompson, chairman of the committee investigating Democratic fund-raising irregularities, suggested that his own party had not done enough to reform the campaign finance system. The former prosecutor and Hollywood actor hopes to position himself as an outsider reforming Washington from the inside.
One-time presidential contender Steve Forbes called the budget deal "an abomination" and issued a call to the conservative wing: "My friends, it's time we start acting like Republicans."
Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., said government spending had not been trimmed enough. "We're fooling ourselves and forgetting why we came to Washington," he said.
It was Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., who cast himself as the ultimate outsider in this field of presidential wannabes.
Clearly, the presidential prospects were trying to tap into the frustration among grassroots Republicans with leadership in Washington.
Texas Gov. George W. Bush warned that Republicans can't trust Clinton to adhere to the accord.
Echoing Quayle, firebrand Alan Keyes said: "I believe in compromise. I don't believe in compromising principles."
"Agreements can be broken," he said.
"Newt gave a great speech here, but he needs to follow up when he gets back to D.C.," said Mike Gubash, 42, of St. Paul, Minn., who attended the three-day conference that ended yesterday.
including dozens of delegates here, said the budget deal would be old news by 2000.
"I say from the outset, I do not seek to be the (presidential) nominee of the Republican Party in the year 2000," he said. "I do not seek to be the vice-presidential candidate in the year 2000."
"If you are a Republican trying to earn your conservative stripes, the budget is an easy issue to demagogue on — or complain about," he said.
Keith Fortmann, executive director of the Iowa Republican party, said the message was not lost on GOP presidential hopefuls.
The deal's most severe critics,
The crowd jumped to its feet and roared with approval.
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