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To: JohnM who wrote (55587)	10/29/2002 10:13:00 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Bush I's campaign manager, again his name still escapes me, used it in the 88 campaign. Lee Atwater. Willie Horton and all that. Unlike the others, Atwater apologized before his untimely demise.

To: JohnM who wrote (55587)	10/29/2002 10:29:49 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Your post did not have enough detail for me to be able to google the events. For example, I remember the Bush-McCain South Carolina Race, but what I remember McCain being hot about was not race, but religion. Bush campaigned at Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist stronghold. The message there, for the religious right, was that Bush is born again and pro-life (which he is) and McCain is not (and he's not.) Bush did not bring up the inter-racial dating aspect, nor did he bring up the anti-Catholic aspect and he distanced himself from it. I was watching it very carefully because I was trying to decide between Bush and McCain, and McCain's reaction really turned me off. I am a Republican, by default, but I am not religious right. I have posted many times on SI that I don't think the religious right are really Republicans, I think they were brought into the Big Tent to get their votes, and I think if the Democrats were to switch sides and the Republicans became pro-life and the Democrats pro-abortion, the Religious Right would become Religious Left in a heartbeat. Abortion is the only issue they really care about. Homosexuality, to a lesser extent, but neither party puts homosexuality into a platform. Race had nothing to do with it.