European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 8, 1992 commentary i the stars and stripes b Page 13data indicate social conservatism in t dead William f. Buckley or. The data from the National election Are extruded Little by Little and the mosaic gradually fills out. The data appear to Challenge a number of instant generalities seized upon immediately after terrible tuesday. For instance a although the Shibboleth tells us that the republicans lost because of their identification in the Public mind with a social conservatism a the Wise men Tell us simultaneously that the sign at Clinton Headquarters that read a the Economy stupid a told us the final Story about what it was that caused Bill Clinton to beat George Bush. The Economy. One version or the other of these is Correct. A the social immoderate which is to say those who believe in abortion on demand in affirmative action for organized Gays and lesbians etc., pretty much belong to the democrats so that it should never have surprised anybody if the majority of them stayed with the party of the Avant Garde. But some corollaries go almost unnoticed. To the extent that there is a gender Gap about which we have heard so much we need to ask two questions. The first is How Many women voters has the Republican party lost the second is How Many men voters has the Republican party gained if the latter exceeds the former then the political strategy is not mistaken. In 1980, 1984 and 1988, Ronald Reagan and Bush had massive majorities among men and slight leads among women. This year the Gap actually shrank. What happened was that Many men moved from Bush to Ross Perot. The result was that Bush a support among men and women differed by less than 1 percent. Ross Perot was ardently pro Choice but Drew 21 percent of men and Only 17 percent of women. How do we explain that moreover Bush suffered no Gap whatever among White women. And unmarried women a ingest this if you can a supported him More heavily than unmarried men 34 percent is. 32 percent. A to dilute the social issues certainly runs risks with some voters. White born again christians made up 17 percent of the electorate. They went 61 percent for Bush a a Nice majority. Not As big As it had been in 1988, when it was a roaring 81 percent which proves nothing More than that born again christians Are also interested in economic health. A Southern Whites went 48 percent for Bush. Those of them who defected did so for the most part to Perot not to Clinton. Single Issue pro life voters account for Between 8 percent and 13 percent of the electorate. That is a lot of people. How does the gop propose to hold on to them presumably by concentrating not on the abolition of abortion but on restrictions to abortion. Ninety percent of the voters favor restrictions of one kind or another e.g., notification of the parents in the Case of teen agers 24-hour waiting period prohibited in the third trimester. A if the Republican convention was the right Wing social orgy that drove the voters away from the party we need to assimilate the polls finding that the biggest pro Republican Bounce came after the first night of the convention when the principal speakers were Pat Buchanan and Reagan a Bounce or 9 percent to 15 percent. One half of All voters thought that family values should be a Campaign Issue. But gop he decided to drop family values a week or so later and with its loss of interest so did the interest of the voters diminish to the Point where Only 15 percent of them thought family values an Issue come election Day. And 65 percent of those who were influenced by family values voted for Bush. A american voters tend to be indulgent and Moder ate but the majority do draw a line. The majority done to want to impose a Radical moral and sexual Agenda on their children via Public schools or to subsidize and promote forms of expression that scandalized deeply Felt beliefs. A we Sec no consistency a writes National review a in a philosophy of government that bans a Crucifix on Public property but finances a Crucifix immersed in urine unless it is a philosophy of Covert hostility to religion and traditional  a and an interesting division Seldom noticed. It turns out that there is a Quot marriage  unmarried voters lean to the democrats marrieds to the gop. This Gap was seven huge Points in Bush a favor suggesting that social conservatism gives strength to the gop coalition As Long As it is one part of that coalition which is All that social conservatives should be asking for. C univ Oral Pross Syndicate today s role models offer a most confusing picture with the devastating fire at Windsor Castle he Queen of England was forced to conclude that the monarchy was in trouble and it was time to pay taxes. Left leaning politicos were contemptuous of her loss. Jay Leno mocked her on late night television. But some sympathized. Four Hundred years it takes you to get the House just the Way you want it and then a poof a gone. And who knows How Many attractive head scarves Elizabeth r lost along with the paintings and the dining room that seated 124 comfortably to add insult to injury a Survey published this week showed that the Duke of Westminster is no longer the richest Man in England. His place has been usurped by one Paul Raymond who is described As having amassed a $2 billion Fortune a through a combination of sex publications and property  but when the Queen herself concluded in an ill advised attempt to get Back to her latin roots that it had been an a Yannus Horri bilis a everyone understood that it was her immediate family she was talking about. They Are a very modern family being prone to infidelity divorce and vacations they cannot afford. But they have not Learned modern ways. The Best known is the Princess of Wales who got off on the wrong foot reality Wise by being Able to invite hundreds of people to her wedding without having to downgrade the entree from beef to Chicken. She went on to captivate the world by proving that her Mother in Law notwithstanding it is possible to look Good in a hat. But she has failed to learn the simplest lessons of daily life. For example it is just foolish to speak plainly on a cellular phone because everyone knows techno geeks listen in while playing dungeons and dragons. Here is the Only Safe Way to speak on a cellular phone a you know the person we were talking about yesterday the one in California that person you know the Friend of her husbands who is in real estate and has the same name As my Cousin he shaving an  Anna m. Quindlen by contrast both the Princess and her husband had cellular phone conversations that included pet names endearments even alleged Kissy sounds. But not with each other. The word is that they have a Loveless marriage. In fact that is what it is universally called now in the Way that some years ago Mamie Van Doren was commonly called a sex bomb. Loveless marriage. No togetherness. No shared interests. Maybe it would help if someone sat the Princess Down and told her that Between Cid schlepping second jobs Homework help and grocery shopping the average working couple have just enough time together to discover that they have run out of Coffee and one of them forgot to mail the mortgage payment. Or per maps the Princess should familiarize herself with the Case of Amy Fisher Mary to Buttafuoco and Mary jobs spouse the Brawny Joey. The Princess is said to have complained that her husband has an ongoing relationship with a woman named Camilla Parker Bowles. But she assuredly cannot say As mrs. Buttafuoco has that Camilla showed up on her front Doorstep with purple hair and a handgun and shot her in the head. At her sentencing 5 to 15 at Bedford Hills where smart Money is on her taking College courses and announcing some Day she wants to work with children my Fisher insisted that she and Joey had been an item and that he had been in on her murder plans. Yet mrs. Buttafuoco has been hugely supportive of her husband. This leaves the rest of us to wonder Why we find so suspicious amyl a visits to Joey a Auto body shop. Arc we cynical or have we simply listened to too Many taped cellular phone conversations the Princess is insulated from events like these. And the role models around her Are conflicting ones. On the one hand there is the Queen who is As wild and Wacky As a scone. On the other there is her Sistek in Law the deeply disgraced Duchess of York. The Duchess was foolish. Even Royalty knows that if you ask your husband a How would you feel if i Hung around topless in the South of France with our financial adviser and let him suck on my tots while our two Little daughters looked on a the response would be a we Are not  or As a Guy like Joey might reply a a in la rip your lungs