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...Prominent Republicans, including Ronald Reagan, flocked to her cause, but Kimi Gray is no conservative ideologue. Her success depends on Great Society programs such as job training to drive home traditional conservative values. "We want to bring families back together, restore our pride and respect," she says. Congressman Jack Kemp, another fan of Gray's who co-sponsored the 1987 legislation, calls tenant management a "synthesis of New Deal programs and conservative thinking." Selling public-housing tenants their homes, he says, "gives the poor dignity and a stake in the American dream." The management association paid $1 for the title...
...dwindled from 85% to 2%, administrative costs of the project have dropped by nearly two-thirds, and teenage pregnancies have been cut in half. Along the way, Gray's brand of tenant management has saved the District and Federal Government about $5.7 million in operating expenses. Says Congressman Kemp: "She is inspirational, and her mind is breathtaking. She might have been born poor, but there is no poverty...
...shape of the Republican race. By coming in second in Iowa, beating George Bush, Robertson gave Bob Dole, the winner in Iowa, a chance to derail Bush in New Hampshire. In addition, the hard core of the right that Robertson had pre- empted was unavailable to Jack Kemp when he needed it. But Robertson's campaign staggered from one kookiness to the next as the candidate not only professed he was (like all the Republicans) opposed to abortion, but argued that we are committing genocide against ourselves by depriving America of all the wages unborn babies would be earning...
...were leftovers from the Robertson campaign. Bush had been criticized as a "lapdog" early in 1987 when he courted the religious right, calling himself a "born again" Christian. It was assumed that he had to undergo these rituals, but that he would move to the center after surviving the Kemp challenge. What Ailes and his campaign allies did was take the Robertson base and build on it, incorporating all its major themes...
...Quayle selection underscores, Bush values loyalty more than brilliance. He is not comfortable with either ideologues or intellectuals, preferring the company of achievers like himself, many of them from the business world. Dole or Kemp would have challenged Bush, causing him constant worry, while Quayle promised to be a team player, a trustworthy subordinate, as Bush was to Reagan. Similarly, Bush may consult strong-willed and brilliant people such as Jeane Kirkpatrick and Henry Kissinger, but they will not have key roles in the Bush Administration...