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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MAY 18, 1984
Mr. Reagan made it only afterward. As a practical matter, we
thus deprive ourselves of SO people who may have demonstrated
their capacity for executive leadership. The new way to the no
mination is said to be more "democratic." Perhaps. But does it
bring the best candidates to the fore, which after all should be
the hope of a democracy? That's why I'm tempted to grumble, "O
the times! O our politics!"
Political surveys indicate that President Reagan is still favored to win in
the November 1984 election against any Democratic challenger, which,
presumably, will be former Vice-President Walter Mondale.
It's still
possible the Democrats, even with all their self-inflicted wounds, could
come up with an attractive "ticket." Pressure is building up to either
select a woman as the Vice-Presidential candidate, or a moderate black
male, such as Mayor Wilson Goode of Philadelphia, who, along with Mayor Tom
Bradley of Los Angeles, would be considered far more acceptable to whites
than Jesse Jackson.
The Democrats hope to cash in handsomely on the approximately three million
or more new black voters harnessed by Jackson to the party's voting ranks.
Win or lose in 1984, columnist Patrick J. Buchanan (SAN DIEGO UNION, March
2) pointg out that the Democratic Party, as it is now becoming, will have a
great impact on America's standing in the world from now on. The Democrats,
he maintains, have become America's "Labor Party," increasingly holding po
sitions on the extreme left similar to that of Britain's opposition party.
Should the Democrats unite and prevail in 1984, the most radical
shift in America's direction and national priorities will be in
foreign policy and national defense. The fundamental premise of
U.S. foreign policy for 40 years from Truman to Reagan--i.e., the
protracted conflict between the free and democratic west and the
Soviet Union and its satellite states, and the corollary policy
of containment--will be abandoned••.•
To hear the national Democrats, it is Roberto D'Aubuisson in El
Salvador, not Fidel Castro in Cuba, whose success we should view
with greatest alarm. It is the Republic of South Africa, not the
Soviet Union•..we should all focus upon with a special fear and
loathing.•••
At its national level, the Democratic Party is coming closely to
resemble, in substance and style, the British Labor Party of Mic
hael Foote. If Reagan is re-elected, he will find that stepped
up resistance to Castroism in Central America will face as much
opposition from the Senate as from the Sandinistas; and his de
fense buildup will be no less reviled in Pravda than in the Demo
cratic caucuses of the Congress of the United States.
John H. Mihalec, a White House speech writer during the 1974-76 Administra
tion of President Gerald Ford goes even further: He claims the modern Demo
cratic Party is the "female" of the two parties. In the May 11 WALL STREET
JOURNAL, Mr. Mihalec wrote the following article, entitled "Hair on the
President's Chest."
It confirms, in principle--and perhaps soon in
actuality--the prophecy of Isaiah 3:12--"As for my people.•. women rule over
them."