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over his supporters when he blew himself up on prime time by alleging dark plots by the Bush campaign to disrupt his daughter’s wedding.

But by then, Mr. Bush, having failed to define himself, had been defined by his opponents and the media. He was, they said, the desperate general of “the Incompatibles,” a shrinking army of wealthy, self-indulgent, essentially liberal, country-club Republicans allied to resentful, lower-middle-class, fundamentalist Christians. The germ of truth in this was that since Mr. Bush had driven away other Reaganite conservatives, these two groups stood out.

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over his supporters when he blew himself up on prime time by alleging dark plots by the Bush campaign to disrupt his daughter’s wedding.

But by then, Mr. Bush, having failed to define himself, had been defined by his opponents and the media. He was, they said, the desperate general of “the Incompatibles,” a shrinking army of wealthy, self-indulgent, essentially liberal, country-club Republicans allied to resentful, lower-middle-class, fundamentalist Christians. The germ of truth in this was that since Mr. Bush had driven away other Reaganite conservatives, these two groups stood out.