THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, October 16, 1996 TAG: 9610160004
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 23 lines
What kind of madness drives a well-tanned, hair-dyed, 73-year-old stubborn Bob Dole to want to lead our country in the next millennium, taking the same catastrophic economic and social direction both Reagan and Bush took?
This man talks of family values, he who divorced his wife and left his teenage daughter. He supports a welfare system, unique in the world, which has made it acceptable and normal to have and raise children in single-parent homes. He accuses Clinton of laxity on drugs, he who takes the largest contribution from the tobacco industry. He supports guns but mixes religion and politics.
He wants to curb immigration in a country of immigrants. Given his age and nostalgia for the past, how come he has forgotten who we are?
Thank goodness the dreadful possibility that Dole could turn his next few ``golden years'' into a nightmare for America is very remote indeed.
LIANA FLEMING
Virginia Beach, Sept. 28, 1996 by CNB