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Michael Reagan: The GOP Should Dump Its 'Litmus Test'
Front Page Magazine ^ | Feb 16, 2007 | Mike Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, heard on more than 200 talk radio stations

Posted on 02/16/2007 8:30:44 AM PST by meg88

The GOP Should Dump Its Litmus Test By Michael Reagan FrontPageMagazine.com | February 16, 2007

The philosopher Diogenes is said to have wandered around ancient Greece holding a lantern and seeking to find an honest man.

My fellow Republicans, sans lanterns, are now wandering around the political landscape seeking to find the perfect Republican presidential candidate.

I don’t know if Diogenes ever found that honest man, but I do know that those Republicans are never going to find the perfect candidate, simply because he does not exist.

Some Republicans insist that the only perfect candidate would be a clone of my Dad, Ronald Reagan. Aside from the fact that there is no such thing, it’s important to recognize that Ronald Reagan, as he often admitted, was anything but perfect.

One of the criticisms about former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney focuses on his record concerning the abortion issue. We are told by the modern day Diogenes clones that he can’t be trusted to fight abortion because he once, more or less, supported a woman’s right to butcher her baby.

It may come as a surprise to these purists, but Ronald Reagan once supported abortion too. Yet nobody ever questioned his strong pro-life credentials after his conversion to Republicanism. They accepted his sincerity. Why can’t they accept Mitt Romney’s?

Romney’s record shows he should be totally acceptable to all conservatives, yet because of one dubious question concerning the validity of his conversion to the pro-life side, he is deemed unsuitable to carry the conservative banner.

The same is true of Rudy Giuliani. On every major issue, he is a solidly conservative and extraordinarily adept executive, but because he backs abortion and some form of gun control, America’s mayor -- the hero of 9/11 and the man who did the impossible by cleaning up New York -- is all but ruled out as a 2008 candidate.

Not one of the major candidates is free of some real or imagined flaw that offends some conservatives.

This is madness, and if it does not stop, the GOP is going to lose the presidential election in 2008. In the search for the perfect candidate we are going to end up with an imperfect candidate. Keep in mind the truism that agreement with someone on most issues and disagreement on others is seen as normal, but should you agree with someone on every single issue imaginable … well… to put it plainly, psychologists say you’re nuts.

I recently got a letter from a conservative Christian organization that asked me if the current GOP candidates are the best the Republican Party has to offer.

“Is it possible that GOP conservative ranks are this thin?” the letter writer asked. “Has the GOP nothing better to offer? Should not pro-family pro-life voters also want a low taxes and limited government candidate before they vigorously support him? Increased taxes and expanded government hurts everyone. Was Ronald Wilson Reagan an anomaly and did he represent the values of his party?

“These GOP candidates,” the letter instructed me, “are little better than Bob Dole, Gerald Ford, or [George] H.W. Bush. Did anyone notice they all lost?”

This makes me wonder if anybody can stand up to the litmus test these people are applying to candidates.

Ronald Reagan had one litmus test he applied to candidates. Were they Republicans? If they were he backed them all the way. He would let the party choose the candidate and he would support and vote for the candidate. He didn’t go sniffing around trying to find some flaw in their character or their past. Once nominated, they were his choice.

And nobody was more candid in admitting that he was anything but perfect than my Dad. He knew that like all men, he had his flaws and he spent a lifetime combating them. Had today’s GOP litmus test been seriously applied to him, he could not have passed the test.

The Democrats don’t have litmus tests. If the nominee is a Democrat, they support their candidate all the way, and if they lose it isn’t because they didn’t fight like demons for their man or woman.

If we want to win in 2008, Republicans had better wake up, and quit talking Ronald Reagan and start being like Ronald Reagan.


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To: Giant Conservative
Thus, nominating a social liberal like Giuliani (or McCain or Romney) would guarantee the general election suicide of the Republican party.

Absolutely right. Splintering the Republican coalition to try and get "centrist" voters will never materialize for the GOP.

681 posted on 02/17/2007 3:03:00 PM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Wonder Warthog

He should run for Governor first. He'd have a better shot at it with an updated record of achievement in an elected position.

The press will make this about the 90's instantly.


682 posted on 02/17/2007 3:53:59 PM PST by RinaseaofDs (Ignorance should be painful)
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To: Paul Ross
What keeps occurring to me is that too many Republicans actually do care more about winning a Presidential race than winning the Race of Faith Unto Everlasting Life.

Winning the race of faith unto everlasting life? 

We  want a Republican President able to lead the nation and make us victorious in the war on terror.  Someone strong on economy policy, fighting crime, lowering our taxes, and someone who can nominate constitutional originalist judges to the Supreme court. We are not looking for a Pope or a Saint, and the GOP isn't a church but a big tent that welcomes Republicans of all stripes.  Ronald Reagan had only ONE litmus test for candidates: if they were Republicans he backed them 100%. 

But perhaps losing the election in search of a Pope, a Saint, or a perfect candidate is much better than beating Hillary.

I'm no a masochist, and I don't enjoy inflicting pain upon myself at the thought of putting up with the likes of Hillary for 8 years.

683 posted on 02/17/2007 3:59:42 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul (If you think the world's dangerous, and you need a tough guy... that's me [Rudy] --Newt Gingrich)
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To: Torie
What you seem to miss is not how many who will vote for Giuliani, but how many won't, under any circumstances. In terms of electability, that's the important number. As I have said so many times, Giuliani's nomination would spell long term electoral disaster for the Party of Lincoln.

Who I ping is none of your business.
684 posted on 02/17/2007 4:57:46 PM PST by EternalVigilance (“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
someone who can nominate constitutional originalist judges to the Supreme court.

I can't think of a single example of a liberal appointing a conservative to the bench. Can you?

685 posted on 02/17/2007 5:00:34 PM PST by EternalVigilance (“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
Ronald Reagan had only ONE litmus test for candidates: if they were Republicans he backed them 100%.

Except for the little fact that he ran against an incumbent Republican President.

Quite strenuously, at that.

686 posted on 02/17/2007 5:01:57 PM PST by EternalVigilance (“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”)
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To: EternalVigilance

You have the numbers wrong IMO, and you also have wrong the failure to recongize that what we do in public on this forum, is everybodys's business, and the subject of fair comment. Cheers.


687 posted on 02/17/2007 5:02:20 PM PST by Torie (The real facts can sometimes be inconvenient things)
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To: Torie

Fine. You commented.


688 posted on 02/17/2007 5:09:28 PM PST by EternalVigilance (“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”)
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To: Torie
JimRob will ban in his own time.

Evidently not. You've been posting here for ages, and you're a lib down to your bones.

689 posted on 02/17/2007 7:51:15 PM PST by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
We want a Republican President able to lead the nation and make us victorious in the war on terror. Someone strong on economy policy, fighting crime, lowering our taxes, and someone who can nominate constitutional originalist judges to the Supreme court.

That leaves out Rudy, Romney and McCain.

690 posted on 02/17/2007 9:02:33 PM PST by TigersEye (Copperheads are infesting our country.)
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To: MilesBennell

Yes, I am a fan of Mission Impossible, isn't what you do here, promoting Rudy to a hostile audienece, 'Mission Impossible'!:)


691 posted on 02/18/2007 8:15:41 AM PST by Roland Hand
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To: onyx
I am a single issue voter. My issue is the Second Amendment. So far McGiuliRomney CANNOT pass this test. I cannot and will not support ANYONE who is a gungrabber for any reason and if you read what follows, you'll know why. Ignorance will no longer be an excuse for you. This is not a game and the very future of the Republic is at stake, which is why it is NO TIME to keep playing political GAMES and electing RINOs just because they call themselves Pubbies. When you do that, YOU are responsible for the evil that they continue to perpetuate.

Why Did it Have to be ... Guns?

by L. Neil Smith

lneil@lneilsmith.org

Over the past 30 years, I've been paid to write almost two million words, every one of which, sooner or later, came back to the issue of guns and gun-ownership. Naturally, I've thought about the issue a lot, and it has always determined the way I vote.

People accuse me of being a single-issue writer, a single- issue thinker, and a single- issue voter, but it isn't true. What I've chosen, in a world where there's never enough time and energy, is to focus on the one political issue which most clearly and unmistakably demonstrates what any politician—or political philosophy—is made of, right down to the creamy liquid center.

Make no mistake: all politicians—even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership—hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician—or political philosophy—can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash—for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything—without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims.

What his attitude—toward your ownership and use of weapons—conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

If he doesn't want you to have the means of defending your life, do you want him in a position to control it?

If he makes excuses about obeying a law he's sworn to uphold and defend—the highest law of the land, the Bill of Rights—do you want to entrust him with anything?

If he ignores you, sneers at you, complains about you, or defames you, if he calls you names only he thinks are evil—like "Constitutionalist"—when you insist that he account for himself, hasn't he betrayed his oath, isn't he unfit to hold office, and doesn't he really belong in jail?

Sure, these are all leading questions. They're the questions that led me to the issue of guns and gun ownership as the clearest and most unmistakable demonstration of what any given politician—or political philosophy—is really made of.

He may lecture you about the dangerous weirdos out there who shouldn't have a gun—but what does that have to do with you? Why in the name of John Moses Browning should you be made to suffer for the misdeeds of others? Didn't you lay aside the infantile notion of group punishment when you left public school—or the military? Isn't it an essentially European notion, anyway—Prussian, maybe—and certainly not what America was supposed to be all about?

And if there are dangerous weirdos out there, does it make sense to deprive you of the means of protecting yourself from them? Forget about those other people, those dangerous weirdos, this is about you, and it has been, all along.

Try it yourself: if a politician won't trust you, why should you trust him? If he's a man—and you're not—what does his lack of trust tell you about his real attitude toward women? If "he" happens to be a woman, what makes her so perverse that she's eager to render her fellow women helpless on the mean and seedy streets her policies helped create? Should you believe her when she says she wants to help you by imposing some infantile group health care program on you at the point of the kind of gun she doesn't want you to have?

On the other hand—or the other party—should you believe anything politicians say who claim they stand for freedom, but drag their feet and make excuses about repealing limits on your right to own and carry weapons? What does this tell you about their real motives for ignoring voters and ramming through one infantile group trade agreement after another with other countries?

Makes voting simpler, doesn't it? You don't have to study every issue—health care, international trade—all you have to do is use this X-ray machine, this Vulcan mind-meld, to get beyond their empty words and find out how politicians really feel. About you. And that, of course, is why they hate it.

And that's why I'm accused of being a single-issue writer, thinker, and voter.

But it isn't true, is it?

Permission to redistribute this article is herewith granted by the author—provided that it is reproduced unedited, in its entirety, and appropriate credit given.

692 posted on 02/18/2007 10:51:12 AM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
Winning the race of faith unto everlasting life? We want a Republican President able to lead the nation and make us victorious in the war on terror.

In other words, you see no role for real faith in that endeavor? Remember what Ronald Reagan said? :

Reagan Remarks at an Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in Dallas, Texas
August 23, 1984

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, very much. And, Martha Weisend, thank you very much. And I could say that if the morning ended with the music we have just heard from that magnificent choir, it would indeed be a holy day for all of us.

It's wonderful to be here this morning. The past few days have been pretty busy for all of us, but I've wanted to be with you today to share some of my own thoughts.

These past few weeks it seems that we've all been hearing a lot of talk about religion and its role in politics, religion and its place in the political life of the Nation. And I think it's appropriate today, at a prayer breakfast for 17,000 citizens in the State of Texas during a great political convention, that this issue be addressed.

I don't speak as a theologian or a scholar, only as one who's lived a little more than his threescore ten - which has been a source of annoyance to some - [laughter] - and as one who has been active in the political life of the Nation for roughly four decades and now who's served the past 3 years in our highest office. I speak, I think I can say, as one who has seen much, who has loved his country, and who's seen it change in many ways.

I believe that faith and religion play a critical role in the political life of our nation - and always has - and that the church - and by that I mean all churches, all denominations - has had a strong influence on the state. And this has worked to our benefit as a nation.

Those who created our country - the Founding Fathers and Mothers - understood that there is a divine order which transcends the human order. They saw the state, in fact, as a form of moral order and felt that the bedrock of moral order is religion.

The Mayflower Compact began with the words, "In the name of God, amen." The Declaration of Independence appeals to "Nature's God" and the "Creator" and "the Supreme Judge of the world." Congress was given a chaplain, and the oaths of office are oaths before God.

James Madison in the Federalist Papers admitted that in the creation of our Republic he perceived the hand of the Almighty. John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, warned that we must never forget the God from whom our blessings flowed.

George Washington referred to religion's profound and unsurpassed place in the heart of our nation quite directly in his Farewell Address in 1796. Seven years earlier, France had erected a government that was intended to be purely secular. This new government would be grounded on reason rather than the law of God. By 1796 the French Revolution had known the Reign of Terror.

And Washington voiced reservations about the idea that there could be a wise policy without a firm moral and religious foundation. He said, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man (call himself a patriot) who (would) labour to subvert these ... firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere Politician ... (and) the pious man ought to respect and to cherish (religion and morality)." And he added, "... let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion."

I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God, that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.

Religion played not only a strong role in our national life; it played a positive role. The abolitionist movement was at heart a moral and religious movement; so was the modern civil rights struggle. And throughout this time, the state was tolerant of religious belief, expression, and practice. Society, too, was tolerant.

But in the 1960s this began to change. We began to make great steps toward secularizing our nation and removing religion from its honored place.

In 1962 the Supreme Court in the New York prayer case banned the compulsory saying of prayers. In 1963 the Court banned the reading of the Bible in our public schools. From that point on, the courts pushed the meaning of the ruling ever outward, so that now our children are not allowed voluntary prayer. We even had to pass a law - we passed a special law in the Congress just a few weeks ago to allow student prayer groups the same access to schoolrooms after classes that a young Marxist society, for example, would already enjoy with no opposition.

The 1962 decision opened the way to a flood of similar suits. Once religion had been made vulnerable, a series of assaults were made in one court after another, on one issue after another. Cases were started to argue against tax-exempt status for churches. Suits were brought to abolish the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance and to remove "In God We Trust" from public documents and from our currency.

Today there are those who are fighting to make sure voluntary prayer is not returned to the classrooms. And the frustrating thing for the great majority of Americans who support and understand the special importance of religion in the national life - the frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom, and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? [Applause] They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

If all the children of our country studied together all of the many religions in our country, wouldn't they learn greater tolerance of each other's beliefs? If children prayed together, would they not understand what they have in common, and would this not, indeed, bring them closer, and is this not to be desired? So, I submit to you that those who claim to be fighting for tolerance on this issue may not be tolerant at all.

When John Kennedy was running for President in 1960, he said that his church would not dictate his Presidency any more than he would speak for his church. Just so, and proper. But John Kennedy was speaking in an America in which the role of religion - and by that I mean the role of all churches - was secure. Abortion was not a political issue. Prayer was not a political issue. The right of church schools to operate was not a political issue. And it was broadly acknowledged that religious leaders had a right and a duty to speak out on the issues of the day. They held a place of respect, and a politician who spoke to or of them with a lack of respect would not long survive in the political arena.

It was acknowledged then that religion held a special place, occupied a special territory in the hearts of the citizenry. The climate has changed greatly since then. And since it has, it logically follows that religion needs defenders against those who care only for the interests of the state.

There are, these days, many questions on which religious leaders are obliged to offer their moral and theological guidance, and such guidance is a good and necessary thing. To know how a church and its members feel on a public issue expands the parameters of debate. It does not narrow the debate; it expands it.

The truth is, politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state. If you practice a religion, whether you're Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or guided by some other faith, then your private life will be influenced by a sense of moral obligation, and so, too, will your public life. One affects the other. The churches of America do not exist by the grace of the state; the churches of America are not mere citizens of the state. The churches of America exist apart; they have their own vantage point, their own authority. Religion is its own realm; it makes its own claims.

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. We command no worship. We mandate no belief. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave it bereft of belief. All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief, to apply moral teaching to public questions.

I submit to you that the tolerant society is open to and encouraging of all religions. And this does not weaken us; it strengthens us, it makes us strong. You know, if we look back through history to all those great civilizations, those great nations that rose up to even world dominance and then deteriorated, declined, and fell, we find they all had one thing in common. One of the significant forerunners of their fall was their turning away from their God or gods.

Without God, there is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we're mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

If I could just make a personal statement of my own - in these 3 years I have understood and known better than ever before the words of Lincoln, when he said that he would be the greatest fool on this footstool called Earth if he ever thought that for one moment he could perform the duties of that office without help from One who is stronger than all.

I thank you, thank you for inviting us here today. Thank you for your kindness and your patience. May God keep you, and may we, all of us, keep God.

Thank you.

He was not afraid of espousing his convictions. We can openly favor them, without making them a "litmus" test...and hence I do. Don't you want to as well?

[We want] Someone strong on economy policy, fighting crime, lowering our taxes, and someone who can nominate constitutional originalist judges to the Supreme court. We are not looking for a Pope or a Saint, and the GOP isn't a church but a big tent that welcomes Republicans of all stripes.

A tent big enough stands for nothing...as I'm sure you are aware...and Reagan was more or less explicitly saying that the boundaries of that tent should not eradicate the freedom of espousal of true faith...nor discourage candidates of faith from serving or speaking of their convictions.

Probably you aren't aware just how far off the ranch some of the RINOs have really gone.

Ronald Reagan had only ONE litmus test for candidates: if they were Republicans he backed them 100%.

Almost right. He vigorously disagreed publically with both (violating his own 11th Commandment) Nixon, Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford...and ran against them. Reagan also kept an explicit promise made to the public, and respectfully confirmed to Phyllis Schlafly...and kept Henry Kissinger and his lieutenants COMPLETELY OUT of his government for both terms.

The clash was at its core...one of fundamental precepts...not mere personages. And those precepts had their source in faith.

693 posted on 02/18/2007 11:25:15 AM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: EternalVigilance
I can't think of a single example of a liberal appointing a conservative to the bench. Can you?

Nope. Not since Richard Nixon.

694 posted on 02/18/2007 11:30:49 AM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: dcwusmc
Excellent article. The psychology of gun grabbing is simple to understand. When someone wants to take away your means of self defense, which you have in no way abused, what possible good motive could they have?

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mahatma Gandhi

695 posted on 02/18/2007 1:29:14 PM PST by TigersEye (Copperheads are infesting our country.)
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To: TigersEye

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. I have yet to hear from the Rudy supporters about it. Wonder why that is??? < /s >


696 posted on 02/18/2007 6:10:38 PM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: .30Carbine

Amen.


697 posted on 02/20/2007 8:39:28 AM PST by Convert (I pray for a swift, honorable,merciful,charitable victory with peace founded on God's Mercy and Law)
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To: Convert

Thanks, Convert. Welcome to Free Republic!


698 posted on 02/20/2007 2:56:07 PM PST by .30Carbine (Conservative is as Conservative does.)
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To: meg88
We only need one litmus test. Its the RINO test. And their actions in the Senate need simply to be censored by not ever electing one.

Thats called accountability, not dreaming of the perfect candidate who does not exist.

Such accounbtability is hardly a "litmus" test.

Hell, you could elect my Irish Setter if you want to. All he would need is a few milllion for image creation, a speech writer, and be from New York city.

699 posted on 02/21/2007 5:28:57 PM PST by Candor7 (Duncan Hunter for President)
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To: Lakeshark
She scares the crap out of me.

Me too. Can anybody hear her and vote for her? She's a far left socialist.

"I'm going to take those profits and invest them in alternative fuels". Mao Tse Tung Hillary Clintoooon.

Taking profits from any company is the same as nationalizing them.

I'm going to vote for whatever Republican comes out of the Convention. Right now it looks like Rudy, and I'll work for him. But whoever is selected by the Republicans has my vote.

700 posted on 02/25/2007 9:26:15 AM PST by Ole Okie
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