Subject: Bush and Dole Woo A Right Wing That Doesn't Quite Trust Them
Date: Published: 1/28/88 44 lines
Source:  WALL STREET JOURNAL. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

   Campaign '88:  
   Moderate Conservatives Bush and Dole Woo
    A Right Wing That Doesn't Quite Trust Them
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   By Ellen Hume and David Rogers
   Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

   For "right-wing activists," columnist Robert Novak
recently wrote in the conservative American Spectator
magazine, the dilemma in this year's GOP presidential contest
is "whether President Bush would give away more to the
Soviets through weakness than President Dole would through
deviousness."
   With polls suggesting that the Republican race is turning
into a two-man battle between the vice president and the
Senate minority leader, hard-line conservatives are in a
quandary.  In recent elections, they set the tenor for the
GOP's ideological debate.  Yet, as the party prepares to pick
its 1988 standard bearer, the candidates of the right lag
behind the front-runners, two moderate conservatives who are
mistrusted by most hard-liners.

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   Campaigning last week in Iowa and the South, Mr. Bush also
praised Martin Luther King Jr., urged more action for civil
rights and arms control, and talked about a dispassionate,
medical approach to AIDS. When asked about tuition tax
credits -- a priority for those who want to send their
children to private religious schools -- he concluded:  "I'm
for them, but let me be honest with you, we don't have the
funds to do that now."

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