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RFFM.org EDITOR'S NOTE: Former Naval officer, retired Lieutenant Commander Cy Huerter tells a disturbing story about CNN's November 28th YouTube Republican presidential candidates debate. Huerter goes on to address the place of homosexuals in the military and gives his opinion on "don't ask, don't tell." BIOGRAPHY -- CY HUERTER Cy Huerter is a business and property developer, President of Lake County Indiana Right to Life and Chairman of the Highland, Indiana Republican Central Committee. His Pro-life support predates the many pro-death government decrees since 1973. Huerter is a retired Naval Officer, has served on the Board of Directors of Lake...

For the connoisseur of political hypocrisy, the shifting immigration stands of three GOP candidates are a veritable banquet. Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney have started doing passable impressions of Lou Dobbs. But can you trust a candidate whose record contradicts his campaign rhetoric? (That was a rhetorical question.) The CNN/YouTube debate was a hoot. Romney and Rudy squared off on what’s shaping up to be the defining issue of Campaign 2008 -- with the dignity of a couple of rabid mongooses. Rudy – who wants to “secure the border” (is there anyone, including Hillary, who says they don’t?)...

It depressed me this morning to read that Rudy Giuliani had chosen to turn down the CNN-You Tube GOP Debate. Assuredly, his experts and spin-doctors told him that the questions would undergo a rigorous editing to card-stack them mendaciously against any GOP front-runner. Assuredly, they are right. Any network that runs “Broken Government; The Right Gone Wrong” seven days in a row before the 2006 Midterm Congressional Election cannot be classified as a disinterested, impartial observer. All that being stipulated, Rudy, or someone in the GOP primary field, needs to take the skirt off and walk into the political snake-pit....