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...student, Steinberg has good reason to support Specter, whose pledges to balance the budget and begin to pay off the national debt rank at the top of his agenda. The accumulating burden of debt service is destroying our nation's ability to spend productively. Red ink is the red menace of our time; in Specter we have a man willing to eliminate...
...Specter is also calling for a 20 percent flat income tax payable on a postcard. Though the proposal is not original, its simplicity is a good selling point for a public largely disenchanted with bloated government. Specter not-improbably claims that the measure would lower real interest rates by two points, raise per capita income by $1,900 and add two trillion dollars to the U.S. economy over the next seven years, a boost in prosperity which would benefit...
Many women are still miffed by Specter's harsh questioning of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings. They should look at his sponsorship of the Freedom of Choice Act and of the Cervical and Breast Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 1990, and then think of the Jekyll & Hyde public/private life of Ted Kennedy. Specter, defiantly pro-choice, has even received support from NARAL president Kate Michelman...
...Specter seeks to return Republicans to the party of Lincoln in its support of both reproductive and religious freedom. Under Specter, the wall between church and state would remain solid. His promise to halt the spread of religious indoctrination has not been made by any other candidate, including President Clinton, who supports a moment of silence in public schools...
...Specter campaign booth was directly opposite that of Pat Buchanan, both in physical and spiritual presence. That is, Buchanan's exclusionary, didactic, isolationist, reactionary vision of America holds almost no parallels to Specter's moderate and reasonable conservatism. Yet Buchanan Deputy Campaign Manager Timothy J. Haley holds his opponent in esteem. "Specter is one of those candidates who truly believes something." Haley said at the conference, dismissing Dole, Gramm and Wilson as mere political operators...