While you're gearing up for your cackletoa eruption at midnight, Allen, you might care to contemplate these articles. First, from nytimes.com :
The Republicans' problem, political strategists say, is that many of these voters have been alienated by the religious right's influence on the party.
It is no coincidence that a number of the leading Republican Presidential candidates are trying to keep an abortion ban far from the top of the party's 2000 agenda.
Congressman Davis said the party should reach out to the "new economy" workers through free-trade policies and legislation sought by the high-tech industry, including a bill, blocked by Senate Democrats last week, that would limit lawsuits arising from year 2000 computer breakdowns. The measure is opposed by trial lawyers, who are among the Democrats' biggest contributors.
"Instead of putting up issues like gay rights and abortion that split our constituencies," Davis said, "let's put up issues that split labor from the high-tech sector, lawyers from high tech."
Y2K in Y2K! Now there's a wedge issue for the GOP. You might like this one better, though:
Dole Sticks to Stance on Guns in Challenge to Rifle Group nytimes.com
Taking on the National Rifle Association, long a sacred cow among many Republicans, Elizabeth Dole asserted Monday, "I don't think that any special interest group should dictate what our position is going to be on particular issues."
Good for her, not that it makes any difference. Is the pressure building? Should the toxic waste cleanup squad be notified in advance? Will this fetid forum qualify as a superfund site? |
