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Bjr GEORGE BOWLES
By no stretch of the imagination can Sen. John Warner be considered a liberal. He defines his political philosophy as moderately conservative, and that is probably what it is.
Bat Warner raised conservative eyebrows among Virginians attending the Republican National Convention in Dallas last week by going about as far as he could go in hoisting storm warnings about the surging tide of conservatism within the GOP.
At a news conference Monday evening, he told reporters about Ms battle as a member of the Platform Committee to keep the party thorn committing the president to a race for nuclear superiority with the Soviet Union. Warner is convinced that nuclear parity, along with superiority in research and development as well as in seapower, are what the country primarily needs to deter Soviet aggression.
What raised eyebrows, however, were his observations concerning the conservative trend within the Republican Party, and what it might mean for the future of the GOP both in the state and nation. . “I feel strongly,” said Warner, “that the Republican party must grow in numbers and offer the opportunity for persons of a moderate philosophy to join. I consider myself a moderate conservative, and while in this particular convention the stronger conservative voices have indeed influenced, to a great extent, the platform, I don’t believe they will put an indelible imprimatur on the party as a whole, and they shouldn’t.
“You see,” he continued, “the party’s objective, of course, is to re-elect Ronald Reagan, attain a majority once again in the United States Senate, and make farther progress toward controlling the House of Representatives.
“The last is going to be a gradual process, and we cannot hope to capture the House by having a party oriented only to one extreme view.”
Extreme view?
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