
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, August 26, 1993                   TAG: 9312300006
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A12   EDITION: METRO 
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GEORGE ALLEN

THE REPUBLICANS' gubernatorial candidate says because he's a husband and father he could better deal with family issues than his unmarried and childless opponent, Democrat Mary Sue Terry.

By this "been there, done that" reasoning, criminals can best deal with issues of crime, drunken drivers with issues of drunken driving, and so on. Sick or dead folks ought to be put in charge of reforming the health-care system.

George Allen's campaign says Terry's campaign doth protest too much. All he said, he explains, was that "it makes me more understanding of the challenges facing the families of Virginia, having had to face these challenges along with them."

That's all.

Allen isn't the first to try to use Terry's singlehood against her. Remember the "boy named Sue" line? It gained cocktail-party currency when Terry first ran for attorney general eight years ago.

Meanwhile, Murphy Brown still isn't married, either, yet she continues to star in a popular television show in spite of a vice president's partisan plea for family values last year.

That vice president isn't on the public scene anymore, but he still has his admirers.

Come to think of it, one more drop of the marital-status card and maybe Virginians should call Janet Reno to have Allen arrested as a Dan Quayle impersonator.

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