Subject: Bush Campaign Hones Message About `Values'
Date: Published: 8/20/92 (46 lines)
Source: Wall Street Journal. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

    Politics & Policy -- Campaign '92:
    Bush Campaign
    Hones Message
    About `Values'
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    Assault on Clinton Is Based
    On Appeal to Tradition;
    Mrs. Quayle Lashes Out
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    By Dennis Farney and John Harwood
    Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

    HOUSTON -- The Bush campaign sharpened its "family values"
 assault on Bill and Hillary Clinton while soothing bruised egos
 within the president's own official family.

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    AIDS activists heckled Mr. Bush and waved a condom at him.  That
 gave him an opportunity to thank "our law enforcement people," who
 took the demonstrators away.

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    Mr. Bush has had to take pains to try and bridge the party
 divide.  At the same time that he was praising law enforcement
 officers for halting the AIDS demonstration, he went out of his way
 to say that "my heart is full of compassion" for victims of the
 disease.
    Also speaking at the convention last night was Mary Fisher, a
 former aide to President Gerald Ford, who has tested positive for
 the HIV virus that causes AIDS.  In a speech that moved some in the
 convention audience to tears, she said that she had contracted the
 virus in marriage but that she was "one with the lonely gay man
 sheltering a flickering candle from the cold wind of his family's
 rejection."
    (See related letter:  "Letters to the Editor:  I Cannot Tolerate
 Intolerant Labeling" -- WSJ Sept. 11, 1992)

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