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???? Lesson learned?

Sen. Mel Martinez's reported selection as the next general chairman of the Republican National Committee catapults Florida to the front lines in the battle for the White House and Congress in 2008.

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But as he moved to the national stage, Martinez seemed to move more to the right. In the senate primary, his campaign labeled former U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum, now Florida's attorney general-elect, the "new darling of the homosexual extremists." In the general election, he portrayed Democratic nominee Betty Castor as being soft on terrorism.

As a senator, Martinez pushed for federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo case -- a move, polls showed, that was very unpopular with the public. He later was linked to a memo that touted the political benefits for Republicans if they interceded on behalf of the brain-damaged woman.

Sen. Martinez reportedly gets job of restoring GOP fortunes

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More on Martinez from Steven Ertelt of Life News...

In the Senate, Martinez has been a strong pro-life advocate, earning a 100 percent pro-life voting record from the National Right to Life Committee.

Martinez has repeatedly voted against abortion and abortion funding, forcing taxpayers to pay for embryonic stem cell research and he supported allowing Terri Schiavo's parents to take their lawsuit to prevent her euthanasia death to federal courts for a review.

"Mel Martinez is a dedicated pro-life advocate with a heart for unborn children," Rai Rojas, NRLC's director of Hispanic outreach who has known Martinez for years, told LifeNews.com. "He will help keep the Republican Party pro-life."

The move has strong implications for the 2008 presidential elections as Martinez can help the party reach out to Hispanic voters, who are overwhelmingly pro-life but voted in larger percentages for Democrats last week.

Pro-Life Hispanic Senator Will Head National Republican Party

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From Abraham Lincoln to Mel Martinez. That should answer any questions which direction the Republican Party is heading.

As for the Democrats, they have descended from Andrew Jackson to Charlie Rangel, John Murtha, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, and so on and on and on and on.

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>> a move, polls showed, that was very unpopular with the public.

Only the rigged ones. Unfortunately, nearly all the polls were rigged by asking grossly inaccurate questions. (W/o too much exaggeration: "Do you think a brain-dead woman on life support should finally be allowed to go home to Jesus?") This was another avenue in which the media were complicit in Terri's murder.

One or two polls that stated the facts accurately had exactly the opposite result -- people were overwhelmingly OPPOSED to killing Terri. The liberals knew this, that is why they wouldn't ask straight questions in their polls.

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Today's TAMPA TRIBUNE: Ken Connor blamed the conservatives for the GOP losing the election (Jeb's lawyer).

Blame the victims, eh?