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...wives and suggesting that Americans can simply "pick one" trivializes the voters' decision. Profile the women--compare their professional styles, their occasional mistakes, their communication methods--but please don't encourage people to vote for a man for President based on their opinion of his spouse! ANN G. BAUER San Diego...
...Viper member, taking a "militiaman's oath" in which he promised to kill anyone attempting to infiltrate the militia and seek retribution if any member was arrested. Even as he took the oath, he was wearing a body wire. Over the next few months he reported that Viper Gary Bauer allegedly boasted about a rocket he built that could "take out a police car." Finis Walker, a Viper "captain," said the group's heavy weapons were needed to deal with swat teams, and the explosives were necessary to destroy heavy armor. Soon after the group began to discuss "urban warfare...
...nobody 'til somebody picks on you in Washington, and so this week Gary Bauer was catapulted into the first tier of Beltway players. He had the good fortune to be attacked by presidential candidate Bob Dole, who after last Tuesday's resignation is officially just a man from Kansas--but also a man who needs to find a shortcut from the right wing back to the center of his party. As presidential candidate Bill Clinton proved in 1992, the quickest route from your party's wing to its center is by attacking someone on your side. Clinton took...
Lucky for Dole, Bauer was willing to play his part; indeed it was a confluence of needs--Bauer's for publicity, Dole's for a foil. Bauer, an acolyte of James Dobson's, whose Focus on the Family ministry reaches millions of the faithful every day on 2,000 radio stations, took Dole to task for moving his declaration of tolerance from the preamble of the party platform, where it would apply to a variety of issues, to the antiabortion plank. But just in case this micromovement was too tiny to register with women voters, Dole also took out after...
This was great for Bauer, who has long labored in the shadow of the other baby-faced Christian activist, Ralph Reed. Yet Bauer professes to be mystified by Dole: "We prayed together in his office recently, and I gave him a lot of help on his Hollywood speech." By making the fight personal, Dole got everyone so caught up in skirmishing that most of the coverage missed the central fact that Dole hasn't changed his commitment to ban most abortions--or the actual party plank--one iota. That's the beauty of making a friend an enemy, however temporarily...