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Article: GOP MAKES A PLAY FOR THE LADIES.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 16, 1996
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Byline: Maureen Dowd The New York Times
SAN DIEGO -- I am put in mind of a Dorothy Parker phrase, as I watch the Republicans nurture, cuddle, swaddle and practically lactate on prime time. It makes me want to fwow up.
This encounter session of a convention is so gauzy and feminized, with treacly videos and speeches featuring women, kids and a rainbow of ethnic groups, it makes the Olympics look like Al Bundy territory.
Historically, the Republicans have always been the Daddy Party, thundering about national defense and communists and making money. And the Democrats have been the Mommy Party, domestic caregivers clucking over women and children and health and the ...