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...disagreements seem to have fallen by the wayside this election year. The GOP leadership is attempting to hold the Senate majority it won in 1980, and it is expected to back Richardson in its efforts to find strong Republican Senate candidates...
...Antonio this past summer, the National Women's Political Caucus--supposedly bipartisan--received a parade of Democratic Presidential hopefuls, and all of them gave at least vague assurances of a possible woman running mate and similar goodies in return for support against the GOP. Around the same time President Reagan made a completely innocent gaffe to a woman's group about the civilizing effect of women on men ("if it weren't for you we men would still be walking around in skins") and put both his advisors and the media in an uproar for days. The so-called "gender...
Precisely because not many daddy-mommy-children arrangements along Reagan's line of thinking exist any longer, Republican Party ideology would not be sullied by an affirmation of the ERA. In fact, often forgotten in the current polarization is the GOP's traditional support of the Amendment and its spirit of human worth shared equally. Republican Congressmen were the first to introduce it, in 1923. The Republican Party was the first to call for it in a platform, in 1940. Since then, the Republican Convention has failed to approve it only three times, in '64, '68, and '80. The Democrats...
...years ago, he graduated from high school when he was 15 and got his law degree seven years later. In 1938, at the age of 31, he was elected governor of his state, the youngest man ever to do so. In 1940 he gave the keynote address at the GOP national convention. He served two and one half terms before going on active duty in the Pacific. After the war he returned to public life and was one of the first to use the strategy that Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and perhaps Mondale have used so effectively. He traveled constantly, speaking...
...first and most successful drive for the White House he covered 160,000 miles and 40 states in 18 months before the GOP convention. But the Republicans were not to recapture the White House for another four years so the field was crowded. He won only the Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries but his delegates split the party which went to the convention with the nomination still in doubt. Ohio Sen. Robert A. Taft offered him the second spot on the ticket in exchange for his delegates but Stassen refused and forced a second and third ballot. But before the third...