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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (14883)	8/21/2001 8:35:07 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

A staunch opponent of communist regimes and critic of foreign aid, he has exerted a major influence in foreign affairs, serving as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 until this year. He frustrated President Clinton (news - web sites) by holding up the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and was a primary author of a law restricting the ability of American companies to do business with Cuba. He also was a leading force in withholding U.S. dues to the United Nations (news - web sites). Although he has mellowed in recent years, Helms considers himself a family values stalwart and has often condemned what he called gay lifestyles. He is generally considered unsympathetic to civil rights and the use of tax dollars to subsidize what he considers indecent art. OUCH!! WE NEED THIS GUY!!

To: sandintoes who wrote (14883)	8/21/2001 10:11:22 PM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

If you mean Elizabeth Dole instead of Barb Dole, I don't think you have the right woman. She is too damned liberal for my tastes; a bigger gov't advocate in deed if not word. She was Sec'y of Transportation or some such thing in the Reagan Admin. and her big accomplishment was imposing the high-mounted third brake light on cars. More regulations, more regulators, more expensive vehicles, and not one prevented accident or dented fender, or saved life attributed to that farce. The theory was that you could see through the front and back windows ahead of you and see brake lights going on before you could see the normal fender mounted ones. If you are in a car following a pickup or SUV you can't see the third brake light several vehicles ahead because of the height of the vehicle you are following. Since then, the third brake light has since been made even more useless by being relocated to the top of the trunk of most cars where you still may not see it even when looking through the glass of a normal car ahead. All of these objections were known and argued when the regs were proposed, but to no avail, because Bureaucrats Rule! I think Senatorette Dole would vote more often like Senatorette Clinton than like Jesse Helms. Chas·DoleisforPineapplenotforSenator