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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (6309)	12/15/2000 2:10:20 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 6710

<<The New Center-Right Center Today?s political center is not a Gore-Gephardt center, but instead a Bush-Breaux center. By Larry Kudlow, NR contributing editor With all the talk about George Bush's need to generate bipartisan consensus policies in the wake of the closely contested presidential election, it's important to recognize that the so-called political center today is right of center, not left. In terms of electoral votes, popular votes, and congressional results, the new right-of-center center that has developed in the past 15 years is still intact. Today's political center is not a Gore-Gephardt center, but instead a Bush-Breaux center ? or perhaps even a Bush-Lieberman center, provided that the Connecticut senator returns to his pre-campaign, New Democrat leanings on school choice, a partial-birth abortion ban, and personal-retirement-account Social Security reform. ... The point is that the GOP's sweep of the House, the Senate, and the presidency, no matter how thin the margins, represents a considerable achievement ? so much so that we should be optimistic that a so-called bipartisan consensus and reconciliation period will surely produce center-right policies, not a leftward lurch. The new center-right center does not favor big-government solutions. It does not believe in business bashing or class-warfare rich bashing. It does not believe in regulating, planning, or targeting the major sectors of the economy. The new center-right center will support gradual and sensible reform plans for education, health care, Social Security, and taxation ? which is exactly what Bush campaigned on and emphasized in his acceptance speech last night. The new center-right center in American politics favors equality of opportunity, not equality of results. It believes in personal responsibility and spiritual renewal, not societal victimization and the condoning of destructive behaviors. It believes in free-market entrepreneurship and shareholding ownership, not massive new entitlements or other transfers of wealth from producers to non-producers. In other words, George W. Bush has a much stronger electoral and political mandate than people seem to recognize. In this manner he has an excellent opportunity to lead the nation towards greater moral, spiritual, and economic prosperity in the first years of the new century.>>