Yup. I'd add to that stopping illegal immigration. The GOP has strayed so far from core principles it's frightening.
Sen. McCain and the republican candidates for U.S. Senate and House should agree to a set of about five promises that would be similar to the Contract with America. They would promise that, if the country elects a republican president and republican majorities of both houses of Congress, they would pass a set of bills. They would include:
1. Decreasing tax rates to the 1989 rates.
2. Eliminating all unconstitutional pork barrel spending, which includes federal spending on health care and education.
3. Building a brick wall, on the Mexican border, which would be finished by July 2009,
4. Tripling fines for employers who hire illegal aliens. The money that is collected, from these fines, would be used to hire more border patrol agents.
5. Repeal of federal gun control laws.