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...Paul Weyrich, the founder of National Empowerment Television (NET) says his politics sit to the right of Genghis Khan...
Well, not literally. But as Weyrich told an audience of approximately 40 at the Kennedy School of Government yesterday, he sits in his Washington D.C. office to the right, spatially, of a reproduction of the Mongol leader's sword hanging on his wall...
...were emphasized in order to divide the Democrats have boomeranged, and are splitting the Republicans. Dinesh D'Souza, in his book on Jerry Falwell, Falwell: Before the Millennium, describes how the religious right planned to use abortion as a wedge issue. At sessions to form the Moral Majority, Paul Weyrich said the movement should "focus attention on the abortion issue, because it would split the Democratic Party, while hardly affecting the Republican vote." Paradoxically, the very decision they hated -- Roe v. Wade -- gave these political operatives the cover they needed: so long as that ruling was in effect, Republicans could...
...Republican conservatives. As President, Bush might have been expected to ignore the demands of a faction that has been sniping at him for years; instead, he has wooed the right, doing the minimum, and sometimes more, to keep it happy. Says Stuart Rothenberg, a political analyst with Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Research and Education Foundation: "He's like the constant suitor. He's always there with the candy and flowers...
Quizzed behind closed doors, Weyrich was unable to cite specific incidents of Tower's misbehavior, but the genie was out of the bottle. The committee was inundated by telephone calls, many anonymous, reporting "sightings" of Tower misbehaving in public. The White House asked Nunn to delay a committee vote while some of the accusations were being checked out by the FBI. Referring to the leaks to the press, Tower privately protested, "They've practically got me dancing naked on top of a piano...