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Dallas is the perfect setting for the launching—or the continuing—of such a crusade. It is rich. It is the most conservative city in America. It is loaded with oil rig chic, although it is not an oil center. It is a cowtown without cows or cowboys. It is a grand movie set on which Ronald Reagan can again play a starring role and probably win another one for the Gipper.
One can look at the opulence of this city and understand why many of the conventioneers really doubt that there is serious hunger in America and really believe that, with Reagan, they have ridden the GOP elephant to a Republican nirvana.
Now admittedly there are divisions of opinions within the party. A handful of liberals and moderates still raise their voices in protest against the overwhelming majority views on such things as abortion, prayer in schools, the ERA, the deficit and a few other questions, but it is no big deal. Mr. Reagan is getting just about the platform he wants. After all, most of it was being written in the back rooms of the Hyatt Regency Hotel while in the front rooms the convention’s platform committee was holding public hearings on what it should contain.
None of this, however, is likely to unduly disturb the delegates.
The stock market is up, inflation is down, interest rates are steady, and the flag flies, at least figuratively, over Grenada. What more could good, God-fearing Republicans wish for in an election year!
So, says the GOP, let the Democrats worry about the constituent groups and their problems. This week it’s time for a grand old party, Dallas style.
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