[TitansAFC]

---"Do you want me in your R party or not?"---

That has never been the issue. SoCons want a united party behind a candidate who is both fiscally and socially Conservative, and will fight the war. It is the Rockefeller wing of the party telling a large group of the base to drop all of their issues, not the other way around.

Yes, I want you in the party, but I also want the SoCons as well. It takes both to win, as is evidenced in Reagan/Bush 43 vs. Ford/Dole/Bush 41. Rudy will polarize a great deal of the base, and get flanked in the election by folks like myself who will see no other alternative than to run another candidate. To expect Rudy to win in excess of 70% of the swing vote - a reasonable number when one considers the revolt on the right - is not realistic.

BTW - The Contract With America started out with Prayer in School. It wasn't all tax cuts. Gingrich knew what he was doing when he added something for everybody on the right.

[Dominic Harr]

FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;
SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;
FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;
SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.

No prayer in schools (which i do support, but only as a matter of freedom of choice).

Many, many socials call pro-choice 'political' conservatives -- like myself -- liberals. They don't want us in the R party.