As Secretary of the DOT she:
Forced the states to push through mandatory seat belt laws
Forced the automobile industry to institute air bags and third brake lights
Forced the states to raise the drinking age
Forced the states against the advice of the Reagan administration to maintain a 55 speed limit
This woman has nothing better to do than to make sure we're all tied into our cars the way she sees fit. She's a control freak. Other than that, she's ambivalent on abortion, 2nd Amendment rights, etc. Should fit right in to the 'new' Republican party
If there's one issue Elizabeth Dole is expert at ducking, it's abortion. So when CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked her what her position was, during a January interview to hype her presidential hopes a day after her resignation as Red Cross chief, she had an evasive sound bite ready. "It's an important issue. There are many other important issues. But I do feel that's for another day, Wolf," she said.
Elizabeth Dole is a classic upper-crusty Republican by background and education. All these social issues you cite are about her courting the women's vote on the "Hillary Cluster" issues, plus most women's always wanting to feel safe, even at the price of liberty and progress. If the human race had listened to such women, we'd still be living under rock shelters and eating raw bison. But Liddy Dole courts them and reflects their concerns. She wants to be a Women's Candidate and ride into the White House of a newly feminized America on an estrogen-soaked platform that would turn the stomachs of our conservative sisters who know what it's really all about, and that without freedom we'd have nothing, especially if we were never willing to risk a bloody nose.
At the end of the day, I don't think you could wedge a credit card between Liddy Dole and Beast Woman herself on the "Hillary Cluster" issues.