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>I'm looking towards 2000, and President-Elect Fred Thompson.
>Clinton-Gore will only close the millennia, the next really starts in
>2001, and (unless we blow it) I see the way open to a fully Republican
>(read Conservative) government at that point in time.

In the final analysis, I think the conservatives were hoisted by their
own petard in this presidential election. Had Bob Dole stayed true to
himself and taken a more middle of the road course, he likely could
have won. The reality is, despite their self-assurance, the
conservative right isn't at all popular with the American people. Most
Americans don't want their morals dictated to them by self-righteous
idealogues. To be sure, the Christian Right has a stranglehold on the
the Republican Party because they have a very effective grassroots
organization, and it has served the Republican Party well in local
elections and in past presidential elections. But there are many, many
people in this country who are put off as much by extremism of the
right as they are by extremism of the left. And, despite the beliefs
of the ultraconservatives, these people are not morally corrupt media
slaves.

I read a recent article by Cal Thomas, who quoted some other
conservative who was questioning the next step of the Christian
Coalition and their followers. His point was that the CC was let down
by the Republicans and that the CC had, basically, three options:
withdraw from the process, form their own party or advocate for a
full-scale revolution and dissolution of the U.S. The first path is
plain quitting, and the last path would do much more harm than good. I
say if conservative christians truly believe they have the support of
the populace at large, they should split from the Republicans and form
their own party -- maybe then they'd see just how thin their support
really is.




>Dennis J. Alcover
>dja@mem.net
>http://home.mem.net/~dja

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