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Will there be an antiwar candidate in the Republican race? Sen. Chuck Hagel keeps toying with the idea. Polls show that perhaps a third of GOP voters would be open to a serious antiwar message. Totemic conservative figures such as William F. Buckley are among them. There are aging New Right activists who began as youthful supporters of the war in Vietnam but who now are facing the other way. "I'll vote for Gore if he runs," said one of them, Roger Stone.

It's not the late 1960s yet, but there is still time.

© 2007

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