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...debate over abortion rights comes at a time when the GOP is searching for direction. Several factions have developed, but each is hard to pin down. The "religious right" personified by Pat Robertson must contend with moderates like Weld and Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.), who in turn lock horns with ultra-conservatives like Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). With Republicans voting for the Brady Bill and becoming pro-choice, the harsh right-winger seem to be losing ground...
...rising tide of consensus in the GOP could be the beginnings of this movement, or it could be mere posturing by a few governors trying to look compassionate to the public. The majority of Republican politicians are pro-life, but that might not always be the case. Attention should be focused on those who elect them--the voters...
...suffered from horrendously poor voter turnout for at least twenty years. The GOP can claim about 40 percent of the nation's voters, but that's only 20 percent of the nation's eligible voting population. Opinion polls and domestic issues perennially find majorities on the side of Democrats. Quite simply, if every American over the age of 18 became informed and voted, the Republicans would have a hard time winning another presidential election...
Unfortunately, voter turnout is falling. Republicans, ever a minority, have less and less to fear from consensus. Perhaps Govs. Weld, Whitman and Wilson will wake up to the fact that shooting for consensus could just cause them to be ostracized in the party. Still, the GOP doesn't have many better--or at least relatively untainted--candidates for high office than those three...
...House Counsel Lloyd Cutler told Congress on the first day of hearings into the matter. But he was quick to add that neither the President nor his staff did anything illegal or unethical when administration officials met with the Treasury Department regarding a Whitewater-related savings & loan probe. The GOP response, summed up by Wisconsin Representative Toby Roth: "This thing smells to high heaven." Expect the rhetoric to grow worse, says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. In further hearings this week, Republicans will get a crack at officials who allegedly had a hand in the White House/Treasury fiasco...