When steve forbes announced for president last week, he said Republicans have an "empty feeling" about the '96 race, and it's true. They're poised for victory, it's a Republican year, they've already won the Congress, and yet . . . they're frustrated. There is an absence, a lack, this presidential year. Will Newt run? Will Colin Powell? Some say the general's qualities are Reaganesque, but more and more of us see him as our favorite moderate Democrat. There is one Republican out there who unites the party; who has the respect and affection of both its elders and collegiate Dittoheads; and who, in a party riven somewhat by class, is happily claimed as One of Us by Greenwich millionaires, Chillicothe Christians and Little Rock auto mechanics; who soothes the chafing tensions between pro- and anti-gun, pro- and anti-abortion. And he even comes from California.
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