THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, November 23, 1994 TAG: 9411220020
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A12 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 37 lines
It is an amazing thing to behold, as President Clinton and the many liberal pundits try to explain the landslide Republican victory. They can sputter all they want about anti-incumbent mood, but the truth is this was a repudiation of Bill Clinton in particular and liberalism in general.
In the 1992 presidential election, Bill Clinton ran as a new Democrat, in touch with the conservative convictions of the American people who, unlike the Reagan-Bush conservatives, would do what was best for America.
The truth was otherwise. He revealed his total commitment to liberal ideology once in office, as he slipped through a compliant Democrat-dominated Congress one radical social initiative after another.
The American people voted Clinton into office for ``change,'' but clearly he used that opportunity to remake society into his own idea of what it should be. Homosexuality, embryonic experimentation, even drug-legalization were foisted on a public that gave no mandate for such initiatives. Clinton's slavish supporters in Congress paid the price.
The American people as a majority do not support the Clinton-type, elitist liberalism. They are basically a hard-working, family-oriented and, yes, religious-minded people. More than two centuries of tradition could never be swept away in one presidential term.
Now, as responsible citizens, we must hold the new incumbents to the pledges they have vowed to keep.
DOREEN M. SALSANO
Chesapeake, Nov. 11, 1994 by CNB