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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: The real Dan Quayle
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 08:32:39 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.isnl7t@erics.infoserv.com>
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- train@gvls2.gvl.unisys.com (Herbert Rutledge) writes:
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- > v115r4q5@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Perry M Jowsey) doesn't know when to quit:
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- > >Quayle has embraced the conservative philosophy that will surface in the 1996
- > >Presidential election, and this coupled with his ability to overcome the nega-
- > >tive press he endured in his four years as VP should put him in a commanding
- > >position in the 1996 campaign.
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- > I would submit to you this: Dan Quayle's negative press wasn't something
- > that was merely endured. It was earned.
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- As for the conservative philosophy that's about to "surface" (as if
- it's somehow been underground for the last 12 years), surveys taken
- since the election have shown that the word "conservative" now creates
- a negative image in people's minds. It's likely that the term is going
- through the same transformation that happened to the perception of "liberal"
- in the '70s. In the '60s, being labelled a conservative was just about
- the kiss of death for a political candidate. At the 1964 Republic Convention
- Barry Goldwater had to plead "conservatism in the defense of liberty
- is no vice", but he went on to a crushing defeat in the election. We
- are once again at the start of a period when voters want a more active
- government, similar to the mood of the '60s, and conservatism is likely
- to be identified with tired old trickle-down economics and government
- gridlock.
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- Eric Smith
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