European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 10 columns William f. Buckley or. What Dukakis needs is to go Back to school when gov. Dukakis was asked during the last debate How he would trim he military the listener was taken once again into one of those rhetorical round plays. The technique is roughly As Fol lows. To the above question you answer believe in a Strong defense we can kill every soviet citizen seven limes right now we Don t need graft and we Don t need crazy new systems our dealings with the soviet Union should take us into a new Era of co existence we do need schools and hospitals and the re building of on r Bridges. The question Hen docs not gel an swered specifically by the question is very specifically answered by an organization which Dukakis serves. As recently As in May of this year Michael Dukakis was listed As a member of the advisory Board of jobs with peace. A brochure issued by this committee Well before june 19bb has some very i reel recommendations and has other interesting things to say. Concretely cancel Star wars and other space weapons research. Cancel the my missile. Cancel new funds for Trident subs and missiles. Cancel the Midge than missile. Cancel the stealth bomber. Cancel the by bomber the penning i and cruise missiles. Cancel nuclear warhead production. Cancel chemical weapons. Dukakis organization informs its members that the largest portion of our income taxes Over 50 percent of every income lax Dollar goes to support the committee s advisory Board should warn against such mislead ing data. Government expenses last year were approximately 23 percent of in Gross National product. Military expenses were approximately 6 percent of the grass National product. But perhaps the most revealing i icon in the brochure of the Dukakis organization is this the United Stales uses a major portion of the military Bud get not for defense against the soviet Union but to threaten or invade smaller less dec Toped now that kind of talk belongs in the fever swamps of political rhetoric. It should not be permitted to climb up out of the daily worker or the communist marxist Paci fist Hale America press. What is Dukakis doing with an organization capable of attributing to the United Stales an anti historical charge that questions the Basic motivations of 40 years of foreign policy most of them bipartisan in origin a bul then we can expect to Bear from Dukakis that he does t necessarily believe in everything this organization stands for. But what else of importance docs jobs with peace stand for it wants to Cut the defense budget by 25 percent that is its reason for being. Dukakis has had a Little infield prac Tice with the question of his membership in the american civil liberties Union. It was he who described himself As a card carrying member. What docs lha mean if not Hal he is faithful to the Agenda of the Acle do you want to hear the latest the Acle sent the following message to the members of he Assembly education committee in Sacramento Calif. Dear members the Acle regrets to inform you of our opposition to sb2394 concerning sex education in Public schools. It is our position that teaching lha monogamous heterosexual Intercourse within marriage is a traditional Ameri can value is an unconstitutional establishment of a religious doctrine in Public schools. There arc various religions which hold contrary beliefs with respect to marriage and monogamy. We believe sb2394 violates the first so then it is a violation of the first amendment to advocate monogamous marriages and heterosexual conjugal Ity. Gel Hal. Suddenly monogamy has be come a denominational Bias of of christianity. Judaism and come to thin of it probably 99 per cell of agnostics and atheists. Bui because islam and some mormons and maybe Hugh Hefner Don t agree it must t be laugh the Wall Street journal published on oct. 20 a definitive study of the Odyssey of the Acle from a straight civil rights organization into a cuckoo left Hale Reli Gion cult and that s of there Are Al kinds of culls in the United Stales and we can Cope with them. But we Are being asked to cop with a candidate who actually seeks the endorsement of the american people and who affiliates with organizations that charge us with seeking to crush and intimidate Small innocent countries Wilhour military might and who View the advocacy of monogamy As a violation of the first the Duke Back to school. We u pay. Univ Wal Preh syndic in Jonathan Wolman republicans fake Nofe if s of a too Early to gloat a ii a pc Tom Tali of Nhonma re. Oct. 13. The Lidit of the second and final a one slate strategy or maybe they la just habit of pulling democratic Levere. Fou perhaps to Cole Oklahoma re publican party chairman put it Besl Idon t think anyone who is out registered 2-1 can Lake anything for granted. Two weeks before election Day George Bush is ahead but Michael Dukakis picked up an underdog s second wind last week answering week of spec Lacunar Bush advertising Wilh some Crea Tive counterattacks of his own and slumping the Industrial Midwest Wilh a fervent critique of Republican economics. George Bush cares about the people on easy Street Dukakis told a crowd in Kalamazoo Mich. I care about the peo ple on main Street. He s on their Side. I m on your the Corpse winked this week i Michigan wrote a columnist for the Detroit free press even As rep. Linweber r-minn., was euphoric ally fore casting a Bush Republican in Kansas democratic chairman Jim Parrish said "1 Hope the republicans think it s Over. They could be in forthe Shock of their lives. This race will not end until nov. of course Many people think it ended night f the l presidential debate. Conventional wis Dom said Dukakis needed a break through to regain his footing in the presidential race. There was none in 10 Days since Dukakis Haj unveiled a strongly worded message of economic populism. Democrats Are glad to see him on the attack but Dukakis does t Al ways seem comfortable there himself. He Slid into a Booth beside Tim la China and his daughter last monday at shorty s diner in Cleveland where la China implored let s kick some ass out there to which Dukakis replied some what less emphatically of very Good Well do in recent Days the republicans have been walking a Fine line Between Over Confidence in private and cautious optimism in Public. You Don t want to be Goliath in these situations Bush Campaign manager Lee Alwater said. The crowd is Al ways cheering for not everyone is finding it easy to adhere to discipline on this gop vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle was crowing Friday night Hal the democrats might end up on election night having a one stat they la have a District of Columbia strategy perhaps Quayle should speak Wilh the governor of Kansas before writing David off. Kansas is a Republican slate where Bush has suffered from the Vicissitudes of the farm Economy and the criticisms of Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole. There s one thing i know you never Lake anything for granted gov. Mike Hayden was saying last week. You never let up. In s ours to win but it s also ours to Wilh so Many voters disenchanted with both candidates Cole had no particular difficulty fighting off the urge to complacency. We have a Good Lead in Oklahoma he said. We were eight Points Down in August. And now we Are 10 Points ahead according to the same poll. That s not enough to say this thing is Over Al the same time in 1984 we had More than a 25 percent so Cole looks for something to worry about and in common Wilh republicans across much of he country when he casts his eyes across his political King Dom he sees a lot of voters with the habit of pulling democratic Levere. Four of Oklahoma s Mijc congressmen the democrats along with More than two thirds of the legislature. Not thai this tendency to vote demo cratic amends itself to presidential elections. On an electoral map where Republican victories Are pain cd in Sanpei you have logo Back to the lbs landslide of 1964 to find Oklahoma in a democratic Shade. This of course is one of the mysteries of the universe on a Par Wilh Yasser Arafat s permanent stubble and fall screen to How is it that the democrats can control the nation s City halt its Legislatures its so Alehouse and bathhouses of Congress and yet Lince 1952 they have won the while House jul Ihrcke limes in nine tries in Quayle s Indiana six democratic congressmen out of 10, but truly one of the More Republican states in the coun try gop chairman Gordon k. Dumiel was worrying recently that a last minute even could yet produce a sudden turn in Dukakis favor in s never Over until in happens he s note a Anslmn wot run to we unit it Bui i Lital in
