Beth Goldstein
On Fri, 7 May 1999 Rkmickey at aol.com wrote:
> Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
>
> >Is it not more and more obvious that if one chooses to vote on the
> >basis of the "lesser evil" strategy, one would vote Republican?
>
> A good question, especially considering the fact that the following
> Republican presidential candidates have gone on record as opposing "the use
> of US military force against Yugoslavia to secure some form of autonomy for
> Kosovo" (source:Human Events, April 30, 1999, p.3)
>
> Gary Bauer
> Pat Buchanan
> Alan Keyes
> Dan Quayle
> Bob Smith
>
> Except for Quayle, the other 4 also opined in response to the same
> questionnaire that Clinton does not have "constitutional authority to
> prosecute a protracted war whether on the air or on the ground against
> Yugoslavia without authorization from Congress."
> John Kasich was not completely forthright but was negative toward the war
> overall.
> Lamar Alexander and the more likely candidates George W Bush, Elizabeth Dole,
> Steve Forbes, and John McCain either did not respond, waffled or favored the
> use of force, but there does seem to be more uneasiness with the war in
> Republican ranks than among the Democrats.
>
> K.Mickey
>