Lee Atwater: New Myths and Old Realities
With their potential presidential candidates in disarray under the lash of George Bush’s 90 percent popularity rating in the polls, the liberals have grabbed Lee Atwater’s death like…
Category: Elections
Look For the Union Label
The 1990 Alabama gubernatorial election may have done to the National Education Association (NEA) what the Bush-Dukakis 1988 election did to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). It…
Abortion Lessons From the ’90 Election
Abortion was not the “silver bullet” in the 1990 election that some were predicting a few months ago. But it is a knife with an edge that cuts…
Will California Republicans Offer a Choice Not an Echo?
California is a trend setter for all sorts of movements that have swept across our nation from no-fault divorce to the tax-cutting Proposition 13. Now the California Republican…
Leap Year Foolishness About the Electoral College
On December 19 when the Electoral College officially elected George Bush the 41st President of the United States, the CBS-TV Evening News pompously referred to this institution by…
Pro-Life Victories In the 1988 Election
A favorite piece of sloganeering by the abortion/Planned Parenthood crowd when they attack the pro-lifers is, “Don’t let a minority impose its values on the rest of us.”…
Seizing the Moral High Ground of Politics — November 1988
Let’s Debate the Furlough Issue
Why hasn’t the Dukakis campaign accepted author Robert James Bidinotto’s challenge to debate the controversial Massachusetts program of giving furloughs to murderers who had been sentenced to life-without-parole?…
Liberals Make Americans Uncomfortable — October 1988
Which Candidate Makes Us Feel Comfortable?
A couple of days before the 1964 presidential election, a full-page advertisement appeared in metropolitan newspapers paid for by the then well-known New York night club owner, Billy…