From: Gary Bauer [gary.bauer@amvalues.org]
Sent: Friday,
March 02, 2007 5:24 PM
Subject: End
of Day 3-2-07
Friday, March 2, 2007
To: Friends &
Supporters
From: Gary Bauer
Do Our Issues
Matter?
A lot of social issue conservatives are worried that the
values issues—the sanctity of life, preservation of marriage etc.—won’t loom
large in the 2008 general election or even in the battle for the GOP nomination.
True, they probably won’t be as prominent as the debate over how to defend our
country against Islamo-fascism. But there are early signs that those writing off
the social issues may be doing it prematurely. In fact, all three of the GOP
frontrunners are trying right now to convince us that they are to one degree or
another more “conservative” on values than the competition.
ABC News is
reporting that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney taped an interview,
scheduled to play on March 6th on the Christian Broadcasting Network, in which
he is critical of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for being “pro-choice
and pro-gay marriage.” A source close to Giuliani told ABC that Romney’s
criticism was sad and that the mayor opposes same sex “marriage.” (He did,
however, sign legislation in 1997 creating domestic partnerships in New York
City.) Meanwhile, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore is running an on-line ad
charging that none of the frontrunners are conservative enough on the social
issues.
I am not taking sides in the Romney/Giuliani “dust up.” What I am
saying is that voters motivated by values issues are a major part of the U.S.
electorate, and particularly among self-identified Republicans. That virtually
guarantees that our issues will be in the headlines in the months
ahead.
Pro-Genocide Convention
The presidents of two of
the world’s worst regimes, Iran and Sudan, held a “thug summit” yesterday and
met every low standard expected of them. Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who
denies the Holocaust, and Sudanese “President” Omar al-Bashir, who has been
overseeing a current holocaust, proudly joined hands against “the enemies of
Islam.” Ahmadinejad asserted that “the Zionists are the true incarnation of
Satan,” while behind the scenes Bashir pursued his goal of obtaining Iranian
missiles.
All of this leads me to ask once again to those urging
President Bush to negotiate with these maniacs: “Negotiate what?” What is it we
should put on the table that we would be willing to give to these
Islamo-fascists who yearn more than anything else for the blood of Christians
and Jews and the destruction of the U.S. and Israel?
Earlier in the
week, the International Criminal Court in The Hague requested summonses for two
Sudanese officials accused of 51 crimes against humanity and war crimes
including murder, torture and mass rape. There is no doubt that the Court will
be ignored. Meanwhile, Europe’s left continues to shake their fists at the U.S.
while ignoring the gathering evil from despots like Bashir and Ahmadinejad.
Apparently our friends across the Atlantic didn’t learn very much about
appeasement in the 1930s.
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