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...GOP candidate won the nation's "youth vote," voters between the age of 18 and 24, in 1984 and again in 1988. And if you ask anyone here why Reagan and Bush have been able to win that youth vote, you get a number of different answers...
What some called "the wimp factor" and others labelled "the vision thing" is haunting George Bush again. And the GOP platform rhetoric of commitment to "family values" isn't a powerful enough incantation to exorcise...
...addition, conservatives are a more diverse group than the GOP imagines. Those who favor libertarian or classical liberal philosophies over Moral Majority ideology will see through the posturing about family values and realize that the Bush-Quayle administration's record is less than ideal on quite a few conservative issues...
...wavering between voting Democrat or Republican, it is because the Bush administration has mounted a forceful attack on abortion rights. Even many Republican voters see this as a betrayal of principles Bush once held, as well as of the conservative principle of protecting individual rights against government intrusion. The GOP's emphasis on simplistic and harsh answers to questions of sexual values gives the impression that they think the country would be all right in no time if we just tightened our belts and zippered our files...
...Baker works to organize a scateredoperation, the Republicans still need to clearlydefine their message, Hagen said. The GOP'schallenge next week, he said, boils down to"giving us a reason to vote for Bush and Quayle...