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Subject: Quayle Revisits 'Family Values' Theme; Vice President Says Only Bush Can
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 04:30:31 EST
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Quayle Revisits 'Family Values' Theme; Vice President Says Only
Bush Can Resist Big Spenders in Congress<By John F.
Harris<Washington Post Staff Writer<

AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. 25 - Perhaps it was the effect of the
minister's sermon, but Vice President Quayle today returned to a
subject he had all but abandoned since the divisive Republican
convention in late August: family values.<

"I'm going to continue to talk about traditional values; I'm go-
ing to continue to talk about family values," Quayle vowed in a
pitched voice to a rally in Savannah this morning. "I don't care
what they say, I'll never, ever back down."

Quayle had begun the day in Savannah at the fundamentalist Cal-
vary Baptist Family Church, where the Rev. Len B. Tucker
delivered a fire-and-brimstone sermon telling parishioners not to
support abortion-rights candidates and condemning homosexuality
as "satanic."

Later, in a rally at a Christian preparatory school, Quayle
praised the service's "very positive message."

Despite the family values foray, Quayle spent most of the day
calling Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton "a patsy"
who wouldn't stand up to the spending demands of his fellow Demo-
crats in Congress.  Earlier in the campaign, Quayle  promised an
end to Washington gridlock through Republican gains on Capitol
Hill. The line these days, though, assumes that Congress will
stay Democratic and warns of new taxes if President Bush is not
there to veto them.

"The question is, who is going to stand up to that liberal,
greedy, Democratic Congress? George Bush is going to stand up to
that Democratic Congress," Quayle said.

It was a  line of attack that Quayle opened up Saturday while
campaigning in Florida, when he charged that if Clinton is elect-
ed  he might join with a Democratic Congress to impose an inheri-
tance tax on people with assets over $200,000.

Clinton has made no such inheritance tax proposal. But Quayle
said Clinton's plan to raise income taxes on people making more
than $200,000 would not produce the money Democrats are predict-
ing.

"What, then, does he mean by 'over $200,000?' " Quayle asked.
"Perhaps he means the definition of 'over 200,000' favored by the
Democratic leadership in Congress."

Quayle said Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Maine)
and House Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) have pro-
posed dropping the threshold for federal estate and gift taxes
from $600,000 to $200,000.

Quayle traveled from Savannah to Augusta for a rally at a shop-
ping mall. There, the air filled with a shower of hundreds of
frozen waffles when he criticized Clinton for equivocating on the
Persian Gulf War. Grabbing a waffle out of midair, a smiling
Quayle shouted, "We don't want a waffler in the White
House."02:26 10-26C9999-----

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