THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, November 3, 1996 TAG: 9611010003
SECTION: COMMENTARY PAGE: J4 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 30 lines
I would like to resubmit my letter published prior to the election of 1994 (with additions, it does apply to the election of 1996):
``President Clinton ran and was elected as a new-age conservative Democrat. Since election, he has joined with the leadership of the liberal Democratic-controlled Congress as they have attempted to further the socialization of our government. We need to give him a Republican controlled Congress - both Senate and House - and allow him to show us that he really is the man he said he was.''
The election of 1994 did give control of Congress to the Republicans, who admittedly were overly avid in their attempt to revise the federal government all at once - a mistake that allowed the president to revitalize himself. Now, in the race for the White House in 1996, he seems to have readopted the ``middle of the road'' goals and ambitions that have long been the beliefs and tenets of the Republican party. People seem to have turned off listening to anything that Mr. Dole has to say, no matter how true or appropriate, and it seems that William Clinton will be president for four more years.
If this comes to pass, we must again give him a Republican-controlled Congress so that he will continue in that moderate mode. Otherwise, the Congress and the president himself will again be under the control of liberal Decomcrats.
CHARLES J. DEVINE Jr., M.D.
Norfolk, Oct. 23, 1996 by CNB