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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (12098)	2/23/2000 2:50:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

>>Think what you must, but he did not garner more than 35% of registered voters. Any Dem would die for that. They can't seem to come close. Dems have had just three majority Presidents in the 20th century. >> The majority of registered voters stayed home. Wrong again. The majority of registered voters voted. >>I've always laughed at the Reagan coalition with the religious right cause he did pass and sign this country's most liberal abortion law when he was Govenor of the State of California. And, you Republican's accuse CLinton of holding his finger in the air to see which way the wind blows! LOL You shouldn't be laughing because you're being laughed at. Your example shows Reagan doing the opposite of what Clinton does. Reagan moved away from the more popular position to a less popular position because he thought it was right. After signing the CA law he was appalled at the use of abortion as a convenience. What Reagan did is precisely the opposite of what Clinton does. Everyone recognizes that.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (12098)	3/2/2000 7:19:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769667

Yes, you are wrong. Protestant evangelicals were politically dormant until the late 1970s. They were pivotal in Jimmy Carter's defeat of President Ford in 1976. But they soon soured on Mr. Carter and grew alarmed by the country's liberal drift. In 1979 a group including Mr. Falwell formed the Moral Majority. It and Ronald Reagan's candidacy in 1980 touched off an explosion of political activism by evangelicals. Mr. Reagan would have won without them. But the rise of the GOP, culminating in the capture of Congress in 1994, would not have happened. Christian conservatives are now a major bloc in the GOP coalition, perhaps as much as one-quarter of the Republican electorate. In conservative states like South Carolina, they are an even bigger factor in primaries. And their clout isn't limited to the South; they are also a significant force in the Republican Party in other places, like California, Iowa, Kansas and Washington state, where Mr. Bush won a surprisingly large primary victory Tuesday. A serious Bush affront to Christian conservatives might doom his candidacy by prompting them to stay home or to vote for a third-party candidate like Pat Buchanan. - Fred Barnes, WSJ 3/2/2000 interactive.wsj.com