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This report was not a pleasant report to write, as Elizabeth
Dole seems to be a genuinely nice and decent person. However,
she has, in a way, inspired the effort to write this report by
claiming to be a conservative as she lines up support for her
bid for a United State Senate seat soon to be vacated by
conservative icon Senator Jesse Helms.
This report was also necessitated by the fact that a number
of conservative leaders are claiming Elizabeth Dole to be a
conservative and thus should be supported by all conservatives.
Senator Jesse Helms is not only an American hero but also a hero
of the conservative movement. The leadership of the conservative
movement should be actively trying to recruit or encourage a
conservative candidate who will build on Helm’s legacy, not
undermine it.
This heavily documented report will demonstrate that
Elizabeth Dole has promoted liberal policies throughout her
political and professional career. It will show how she
undermined the Reagan agenda numerous times; how she engaged in
policy battles more for the publicity than due to any commitment
to core principles. Indeed, this report will demonstrate that
Dole lacks the principles necessary to follow in the footsteps
of Senator Jesse Helms.
Due to the role that Dole says religion plays in her life,
this report delves into the radical policies and theology
espoused by Dole’s former church, the Foundry Church. This
Church was attended by the Clintons and is, without a doubt, one
of America’s most radical churches. For nearly four years, the
Doles listened to anti-free enterprise, pro-abortion, and
pro-gay agenda sermons, apparently without feeling
uncomfortable; leaving the church only when media exposure
forced them to do so.
The report describes Dole's extreme confusion on many of the
most important issues for conservatives – the homosexual
agenda, abortion, quotas, the Boy Scouts, and gun control. She
has repeatedly demonstrated a complete lack of knowledge about
the core principles that underlie conservatism and on the few
occasions when she has enunciated a policy position, it is often
inconsistent with her other actions. Alarmingly, it appears that
the more impact an issue has upon American culture, the less
Dole seems to understand it. One can only conclude that once in
office, Dole would pose a danger to conservative initiatives and
will likely vote on many occasions contrary to constitutional
principles.
Dole’s professional life is examined in great detail in
this report and while it reads like a series of policy blunders,
it appears that Dole has not learned from her mistakes. Indeed,
recent speeches demonstrate that she continues to believe the
liberal policies she supported in the past were correct.
Due to their belief in individual merit, Republicans have
always been against quotas, but Dole gave credibility to
radical, even unconstitutional, quota-type issues such as the
"comparable worth" and "glass ceiling"
issues that have been used so often by anti-business regulatory
bureaucrats to inflict a great deal of damage on the American
private sector.
After Dole made the Glass Ceiling concept a major issue, for
example, liberal legislators codified this quota issue by making
it a civil rights law. With the power of the federal government
behind it, the glass ceiling laws are commonly used today to
harass and litigate against the private sector for not having
the "proper" ratio of women in certain positions. And
yet, even today, Dole takes credit for creating the comparable
worth and glass ceiling issues.
Contrary to the Reagan Administration agenda, Dole promoted
the Equal Rights Amendment, not seeming to understand the
serious and critical consequences such an amendment would have
on American society. She undermined President Ronald Reagan on
other issues as Secretary of Transportation. She cleverly forced
airbags on American consumers despite the evidence they have
killed over a hundred children.
Dole supported maintaining the intrusive 55 miles per hour
federal law even though research showed that her efforts to
delay the abolition of the 55 mph rule cost perhaps thousands of
highway fatalities. Similarly, Dole’s refusal to fight
illogical Department of Transportation CAFE standards, which
prohibited heavier and safer cars on our highways, led to a
flood of dangerous cars that once again, caused thousands of
unnecessary highway fatalities. Seemingly unaware of what our
founding fathers wrote about limited central government, Dole
used her power as Secretary of Transportation to force
21-year-old drink age laws on all the states.
When Dole became Labor Secretary, she again went on an
anti-business crusade, vastly enlarging the power of OSHA to
harass business and then initiated the dreaded ergonomic rules
that the Republican controlled Congress recently repealed.
Instead of using her authority as Secretary of Labor to educate
Congress how a proposed minimum wage law would lead to a loss of
jobs for teenagers and others, she remained silent. Needless to
say, hundreds of thousands of teenagers soon lost their jobs.
While silent on issues she should have been vocal about, Dole
received publicity for issues she created out of thin air. She
accused thousands of businesses of exploiting children by
violating child labor laws; but the only real result of that
particular publicity stunt was the refusal of many businesses to
hire any teenagers at all, once again leading to thousands of
lost jobs for young men and woman.
She supported boondoggle job training programs such as the
Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), one of the biggest wastes
of taxpayer’s dollars ever, but her Department issued
statistics about the "success" of the JTPA that were
misleading and deceitful.
This report will show how Elizabeth Dole empowered labor
unions by refusing to notify workers about their right to refuse
payment of dues used for political purposes, allowing organized
labor to continue collecting millions of dollars from
unsuspecting workers, money that is used almost exclusively to
defeat Republican candidates. Dole’s pro-union reputation was
enhanced when she settled a major strike in favor of the union.
Unknown to most people, Dole also initiated the SCANS
Commission, the single most important event that created the
Goals 2000/School-to-Work movement, a movement that has severely
dumbed down American public schools and which continues today to
undermined the teaching of basic academic skills.
This disastrous trail of policy blunders continued when Dole
was hired as President of the American Red Cross. Her
mismanagement of that charity resulted in thousands of health
and safety code violations, causing the Food and Drug
Administration to essentially take control of the agency via
consent decree. Her efforts to turn the Red Cross into a blood
business completely corrupted the original ideal of the Red
Cross as a charity, and her negligence actually threatened the
public health by inattention to the purity of the blood supply.
Moreover, Dole used the Red Cross to promote the agenda of
the homosexual movement by sending Red Cross lobbyists and
lawyers around the country to oppose common sense AIDS bills
that attempted to curtail the spread of AIDS.
Many people are unaware that the American Red Cross is the
world’s largest AIDS education provider targeted at America’s
youth. However, the material distributed by ARC under Dole’s
tenure was graphic, offensive, and in some cases, obscene. The
approach used is the discredited "safe sex" approach
in which the Red Cross essentially encourages sex among our
young by given them graphic descriptions of what to do as if it
is expected behavior.
ARC manuals urge instructors to encourage children to play
games such as musical chairs, flash cards, and role-playing,
etc. as a way of introducing sexual topics to them such as
mutual masturbation and anal sex. The damage done to America’s
youth by this reckless "non-judgmental" approach to
the most serious health issue of our time is incalculable.
Moreover, the Red Cross web site refers people to some of
America’s most radical homosexual groups, including groups who
embrace sexual relations between older men and
"younger" men.
If that’s not disturbing enough, incredibly, this report
also recounts the depressing story of how a Christian who worked
for the Red Cross was prohibited from teaching its AIDS
education course because ARC viewed his Christian beliefs as
contrary to its mission. This religious discrimination case went
all the way to the Supreme Court, something that could not occur
without the consent of the President of the Red Cross.
It is a shocking report that demonstrates a clear pattern of
both reckless and liberal behavior exists in Mrs. Dole’s
actions. This makes it difficult to attribute her actions to
simply mistakes or confusion. The authors are confident that
Dole’s defenders will protest this report, claiming Dole didn’t
know her agency was doing this or her department was doing that,
but a person involved in the governing of our country must be
held accountable for the actions that transpire under their
authority. If she is not held accountable, her pattern of
liberal advocacy will continue with whatever position she holds
in the future.
Read the full report
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