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The Adams County GOP needs your support to help staff the Republican table for an hour or more at these

events. Please contact Gil Farin (303-464-9720) or Jerry Cunningham (303-439-8228) with the times you can

volunteer. To help at Cinco de Mayo, contact Martin Mendez (720-244-2448). Republican Candidates are

encouraged to meet and greet voters at our booth.

Upcoming Republican events we need your help at include:

Denver Civic Center Park CINCO de MAYO Sat-Sun May 9-10th

Thornton THORNTONFEST Saturday May 16th

Commerce City MEMORIAL DAY PARADE Monday May 25th

Brighton CULTURE FEST Saturday June 6th

Saturday, May 9, 2009 NSRF Meeting Itinerary

9:15-9:30am Sign in, pay $3 meeting fee ($20 yearly dues), enjoy continental breakfast and beverage, and chat with

fellow attendees

9:30-9:45am Welcome, Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, comments about the latest political news

9:45-10:00am City & County Republican Politicians in attendance, Committee reports (Trumpeters, Hispanics, Central

Committee, Small Donor), Republican upcoming events

10:00-10:25am Guest speaker Erik Hansen on “ Jobs and the Economy in Thornton and Adams County ”

10:25-10:40am Q&A

10:40-10:45am Introduction of new members, next meeting date and speaker announced, adjournment

Erik Hansen’s Biography (so far):

Erik Hansen was elected to the position of Thornton Mayor in November of 2007.

Previous to that, he served as a Thornton City Councilmember, elected first in

2001.

Erik has lived in Colorado since 1992 after moving here from the Midwest. He

grew up on a farm in Iowa in a small Danish community and still retains strong

ties to that area. Erik and his wife, Holly Hansen, have been married since 1997

and have a son, Quincy, age 7and a daughter, Grace, age 5.



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Erik is the Director of Ecommerce for VitraSun, a Colorado-based nutritional supplement company. He

received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Truman State University and a master’s degree in

business administration from the University of Denver.

He has also been chairman of the Agency for a Clean Thornton board and was president of the Woodbridge

Station Homeowner’s Association. Mr. Hansen is a member of the Rotary Club of Denver Metro North and St.

Stephen’s Lutheran Church in Northglenn. An active republican, he is also a former member of the Board of

Directors of the North Suburban Republican Forum.

Erik Hansen can be reached at the City of Thornton at 303-538-7531 or at home 303-252-0298. His City e-mail

address: [email protected].

Hansen in the lead for Thornton mayorContributed by: Laura Mayo/YourHub.com on 11/6/2007

Erik Hansen is set to be the next Thornton mayor. He had a large lead over all other candidates late Tuesday.

Hansen said he wants to get to work right away when he takes office Nov. 20.

Running on a campaign pledge to help bring 10,000 new jobs to the city in the next 10 years , Hansen and the new

council's first order of business will be appointing his replacement for the Ward IV seat he currently holds, he said.

Thornton residents voted for a "new agenda" when they elected him and four new members to sit on the city council," he

said. "We are now going to have to work out what that agenda is going to be," Hansen said. "I'm looking forward to

getting some work done for the city."

Jeff Kraft, also candidate for mayor, said he hopes whoever is elected helps Thornton citizens to become more

involved.

"They need to bring back the pride of Thornton," he said. "They need to listen to all the people despite their background

or how much money they have and that hasn't been happening."

Richard Reeser said he doesn't expect to win the seat of mayor and "that's OK."

"Erik Hansen outspent me about six-to-one," he said while votes were still being counted. "I might pick up some more

votes, but so will he, and I don't have any expectation about winning. ... Some voters were impressed with substance

and not fluff."

Marty Wisniewski said he was most disappointed about the lack of turnout at the polls.

"It's very disappointing how many people came out to vote. We ran an honest campaign and I hope that the new council

does a great job and does work for the citizens and not personal gain."

Wisniewski said one big issue he hopes gets tackled by council is a charter review. "We need to have a better transition."

Candidate Rebecca Cavanaugh-Miller, who was running second to Hansen late Tuesday, wouldn't concede the raceand said she didn't want to comment.

Hansen has been on the Thornton City Council since 2001. He serves on the E470 Authority Board and is a member of

the Rotary Club of Denver Metro North.

Our very own Wanda Barnes is finally FINALLY graduating from college. She is getting an Associate’s Degree in General

Studies, Cum Laude, and has already met with one 4-year College for her Bachelors Degree. Her major will be in

Psychology and minor in Human Resources Management. Congratulations Wanda!!!

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Rosen: Free speech for some

By Mike Rosen Posted: 05/01/2009 12:30:00 AM MDT

Former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo was recently invited to the University of North Carolina to sharehis views on U.S. immigration policy and tuition subsidies. Even before he began his talk in a UNC classroomon April 14, protesters stood with signs and banners, shouted obscenities and otherwise behaved rudely.

Just a few minutes into his speech, when Tancredo made a reference to illegal immigrants, demonstratorsmoved to the front of the room, blocking the audience's view of Tancredo with a banner that read: "No one isillegal." Seconds later, one of the protesters broke a window. University security officers, standing by, shutdown the event.

That was it. The speech was vetoed by uncivil, violent dissenters intent on denying Tancredo's willing audiencetheir right to hear his message.

An angry, chanting mob at UNC labeled Tancredo a racist and a radical. He's most certainly neither. He'sopposed to illegal immigration, regardless of race. And there's hardly anything radical about securing ourborders and enforcing our immigration laws. What is radical in this instance is the behavior of these studentdemonstrators and their implicit notion that the U.S. should have open borders.

Their beef that "no one is illegal" is an offense to liberal, politically correct phraseology. So let's rephrase it.The immigration status of people who cross our borders or remain in this country without the permission of our

government is illegal. There, is that better?

If you treasure our Constitution's guarantee of your individual right to freedom of speech, you must necessarilyextend that protection to others — including those with whom you disagree. You must also take the risk thatother people will listen to them, just as you want people to listen to you. If you refuse to make such allowances,your hypocrisy undermines the fundamental principle of free speech and endangers its very existence.

The First Amendment is not absolute in any of its applications, from speech to religion to assembly. Libelousspeech is not protected; religious freedom does not extend to human sacrifice; and freedom of assembly doesn't



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give you license to trespass on someone else's property. But one's free speech cannot legally be muzzled simplybecause someone else disapproves of it.

How ironic that left-wing college activism was launched at the University of California- Berkeley in the 1960sas the "Free Speech Movement."

For today's college lefties, free speech is a one-way street. They justify this double standard with an arrogant,self-absorbed, self- righteous belief that the ends justify the means, that they alone have a monopoly on truth,

and that heretics cannot be tolerated. The broken glass that halted Tancredo's speech is a symbolic flashback tothe forebears of these UNC student thugs: the SS and Hitler Youth gangs that terrorized Jews. The violence isonly different in degree. Student lefties have pushed pies in the faces of conservative speakers on campus. Onprinciple, that is no less an affront to the First Amendment than clubs or guns.

These militant brats childishly call others "fascists" without understanding the meaning of the term whilebehaving like fascists themselves. But even more inexcusable is the complicity of grownups, those fecklessuniversity administrators responsible for protecting dialog and inquiry at centers of higher learning who allowstudents to stifle free speech.

E-mail Mike Rosen at [email protected].

The GOP After Specter

The party needs a healthy debate, but not because he's left.

By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Arlen Specter's decision to go Democrat has sent the GOPinto a new round of infighting over what the party is, andwhere it goes now. Mr. Specter is a very unhealthy basison which to be having what might otherwise be a healthydebate.

Not that anything could stop the bitter winds now blowingthrough the Republican fields. Within hours of Mr.Specter's bombshell, the sides were formed up. TeamGood Riddance featured the Club for Growth's AndyRoth: "Arlen Specter is the epitome of everything votershave come to hate about the Republican Party." "Arlen

Specter makes case for term limits," Tweeted MikeHuckabee. "Don't let the door hit you on the way out,"sang pundit Michelle Malkin.

Team Now-Look-What-You've-Done featured writer David Frum: "For years, many in the conservative world havewished for an ideologically purer GOP. Their wish has been granted. Happy?" Sen. Lindsey Graham unleashed on theClub for Growth, sagely adding: "As Republicans, we've got a problem." Maine's Olympia Snowe lamented: "You haven'tcertainly heard warm, encouraging words about how [the GOP] views moderates."







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Purely from a tactical standpoint, Mr. Specter's move matters deeply. The Democrats are a gnat's breath away from afilibuster-proof majority. He has vowed to continue to vote his conscience on issues such as card check. Yet in the face of tough opponent in next year's Democratic primary, Mr. Specter's conscience might wander.

Purely from a philosophical standpoint, Mr. Specter's move means nothing, because he didn't leave his party onphilosophical grounds. As even the good senator acknowledged in his press conference, his top priority is, and always hasbeen, staying in office. Had the GOP last year allowed Mr. Specter to pen the entire party platform to his liking, he'd stillhave bailed this week. The Pennsylvanian has only ever been purely ideological on one issue: the polls.

It is this, by the way, that helps explain why Mr. Specter -- and certain other self-acclaimed Senate "moderates" -- raisesuch particular ire within their party. Maine's Susan Collins lectured the GOP this week that it needed to be open to"centrists." It does. Though it might help if Sen. Collins ever explained what she thinks that means.

When Joe Lieberman broke with his party on Iraq, or John McCain with his on global warming, or when Daniel Patrick Moynihan stood for Social Security reform, they were able to clearly articulate what it was about their political beliefsthat led them to those positions. They also took their positions at some political risk. When Ms. Collins positions herself as a deficit hawk, even as she votes for every spending bill in sight -- often with a pure eye for re-election -- and thenscolds her colleagues for not being more accepting of her "centrism," well, the party tends to get a bit cranky.

The point here being that Mr. Specter isn't necessarily a good indicator of how open, or not, the GOP is to "ideological"diversity. As it happens, the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate that Mr. Specter is now so unwilling to be

"judged" by didn't suddenly turn against him because he was pro-choice (he always has been) or pro trial-lawyer (ditto).He got in trouble after he voted for the blowout $787 billion stimulus bill. (More on that later.)

That's not to say the GOP doesn't need to work this through, and soon. But to do it productively, as one wise Republicanput it to me, the GOP needs to be "clear about the difference between philosophy and message." The party is currently introuble because the party lost its principles. Overspending, earmarks, corruption and policy drift undermined Republicanclaims to be the party of reform.

With a popular president now branding the GOP as the "party of no," there will be a strong Republican temptation to cutdeals on health-care or energy, hoping to get credit for bipartisanship, or for making policies less bad. But the GOP willnever win running as a less enthusiastic version of big-government Democrats. Washington votes are the only way forcongressional Republicans to actually demonstrate a philosophy to voters, and it is here the party must reclaim its mantle

of the party of limited government and entrepreneurship.

This is different from a message of outreach, which the party also desperately needs, but is accomplished primarily in thefield. It involves members explaining to younger constituents why old-fashioned principles of choice and freedom stillwork for modern problems like health care. It means transmitting a welcome to those attracted to even one part of theconservative philosophy -- free markets, strong national security, social values -- even if not all. It requires recruitingcandidates who aren't held to stiff litmus tests, but who have a shot of winning in the Northeast, say, or Illinois.

Trying to mold this thinking around Arlen Specter will only prove an exercise in confusion. It already is.



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Suburban Republican Forum group. Keep in touch and stay informed!

OPINION

MAY 2, 2009

How Republicans Can Build a Big-Tent Party

It's the Democrats who won't tolerate a diversity of views.

By JIM DEMINT

Sen. Arlen Specter's defection to the Democratic Party this week is no reason for Republicans to cheer. But hisreason for leaving -- he faced an unwinnable primary election next year -- is no cause for soul searching. Thereis a question Republicans do need to ask: What is it that binds our party together?

In the wake of two successive electoral defeats and the likelihood of a 60-vote Democrat majority in the Senate,what does it even mean to be a Republican today? Moderate Republicans are right to remind conservatives thatthey cannot build a center-right coalition without the center part. And conservatives are right to remindmoderates that Republicans only succeed when we rally around clear principles.

The real mistake is that Republicans became more concerned with staying in D.C. than reforming it.

Despite notable successes at both ends of Pennsylvania Ave., it seems to me that Republicans in Congress andin the Bush administration forgot a simple truth. To paraphrase C.S. Lewis, if you aim for principled reform,you win elections in the bargain; if you just aim for elections, you get neither.

No Child Left Behind didn't win us "soccer moms," but it did cost us our credibility on locally controllededucation. Medicare prescription drugs didn't win us a "permanent majority," but it cost us our credibility onentitlement reform. Every year, another Republican quality was tainted: managerial competence, fiscaldiscipline and personal ethics.

To win back the trust of the American people, we must be a "big tent" party. But big tents need strong poles,and the strongest pole of our party -- the organizing principle and the crucial alternative to the Democrats --

must be freedom. The federal government is too big, takes too much of our money, and makes too many of ourdecisions. If Republicans can't agree on that, elections are the least of our problems.

If the American people want a European-style social democracy, the Democratic Party will give it to them. Wecan't win a bidding war with Democrats.

Freedom will mean different things to different Republicans, but it can tether a diverse coalition to inalienableprinciples. Republicans can welcome a vigorous debate about legalized abortion or same-sex marriage; but weshould be able to agree that social policies should be set through a democratic process, not by unelected judges.




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Our party benefits from national-security debates; but Republicans can start from the premise that the U.S. is anexceptional nation and force for good in history. We can argue about how to rein in the federal Leviathan; butwe should agree that centralized government infringes on individual liberty and that problems are best solved bythe people or the government closest to them.

Moderate and liberal Republicans who think a South Carolina conservative like me has too much influence areright! I don't want to make decisions for them. That's why I'm working to reduce Washington's grip on our livesand devolve power to the states, communities and individuals, so that Northeastern Republicans, Western

Republicans, Southern Republicans, and Midwestern Republicans can define their own brands of Republicanism. It's the Democrats who want to impose a rigid, uniform agenda on all Americans. FreedomRepublicanism is about choice -- in education, health care, energy and more. It's OK if those choices look different in South Carolina, Maine and California.

A Republican recommitment to freedom and limited government will foster an agenda that will strengthen andinvigorate our party. Freedom has worked for our party and our country before. It will again, if we let it.

Mr. DeMint is a Republican senator from South Carolina.

Adams County Republican National Hispanic Assembly Monthly Meeting

The RNHA has scheduled Dan Maes, who has announced his candidacy for Governor of Colorado. This

promises to be a very special and interesting meeting. Mark your calendars and plan on joining us for

breakfast and hear what he has to say. If I am not mistaken, this may be the first time there has been an

Hispanic candidate for Governor. Hispanics have become very dissatisfied with Governor Bill Ritter for what is

considered his lack of support for Hispanics and their issues.

The monthly meeting will be at our usual location:

Rosita's Mexican Restaurant 8150 Federal Blvd. Westminster

Tuesday May 19th at 7:00 AM

No charge for the meeting and breakfast is ordered individually from the menu.

For more information contact Martin Mendez 720-244-2448 or Frank Carrillo at 303-457-8676

Hope to see you there and bring a friend (or enemy)

CAPITAL JOURNAL

MAY 5, 2009

GOP Tries to Dig Out of Its Hole By GERALD F. SEIB

If you're trying to figure how bad things are for Republicans, consider this: More Americans say they areconservatives than say they are part of the Republican Party -- which is supposed to be, after all, the party of conservatives.

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That picture emerges from deep inside the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The numbers there showthe extent of the woes facing today's Republican Party -- woes that came into sharp relief last week with thedefection of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter to the Democrats.

Yet the numbers also suggest the GOP might be able to start climbing out of its hole, which is precisely whatsome party leaders are trying to do by launching a new effort to reach out to the grass roots across the country.

WSJ's capital Journal columnist Jerry Seib takes a look at the problems that Republicans are having during the

Obama era, by taking a dive into the numbers in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

In the Journal/NBC News survey, just 31% of those polled called themselves Republicans. That's down from37% eight years ago. More important, a larger share of Americans now call themselves Democrats thanRepublicans in every region of the country, including the South, which the GOP likes to think of as itsremaining bastion. Democrats also outnumber Republicans in every age group. In sum, the view of theRepublican Party that emerges is the very picture of a minority party.

At the same time, there are many potential Republicans out there. Of those surveyed, 35% called themselvesconservatives -- as opposed to 24% who called themselves liberals -- and four in 10 of those self-identifiedconservatives identified themselves as something other than a Republican.

Meanwhile, Democrats are getting the majority of liberals and twice as many moderates as the GOP, as well asa good slice of those self-identified conservatives. Perhaps not surprisingly, the conservatives the Republicansare failing to win over are far more likely to identify themselves as "somewhat conservative" than "veryconservative.

These numbers suggest that, as Republicans tell themselves repeatedly, this still is basically a center-rightnation, which should be good news for their party. Clearly, though, Republicans are having trouble luring back potential followers in the middle of the spectrum.

"People want some hope, and they want to understand where the country is going," says Rep. Eric Cantor, thesecond-ranking Republican in the House. He has just launched a new effort, called the National Council for aNew America, which is going to send party leaders fanning out across the country to talk and listen. "Ourparty," he says, "has to do a much better job of connecting."

The first question for Republicans to ask, of course, is how they got into this situation in the first place.Obviously, the 2008 election showed the toll that an unpopular war in Iraq and an economy in decline had takenon the party.

Yet since the election, Republican problems have, in some ways, compounded.

President Barack Obama's popularity is winning him at least the tentativebacking of many Americans who have doubts about his policies. A striking 30%of those surveyed said they like Mr. Obama personally but disapprove of manyof his policies.

At the same time, economic anxiety has left many Americans who usually wantlimited government prepared to accept more government activism right now.

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That makes things trickier for the party that is more inclined to argue for government restraint.

The best sign of that: Republicans are the ones getting hammered in public opinion for the lack of bipartisanshipin the era of Obama. Americans are twice as likely to say Republicans, rather than Mr. Obama, are to blame forbeing too stubborn in dealing with the other side.

This drives Republicans on Capitol Hill crazy because they think the Obama outreach across the aisle has beenmore advertised than real. Still, those numbers suggest Republicans suffered damage early this year from the

big argument over an economic-stimulus package, during which they came to be seen more as opposed to whatthe Democrats were doing than in favor of any alternative approach.

That is precisely the situation Rep. Cantor is trying to change. He has organized Republican leaders fromCongress, a few Republican governors and party elder statesmen Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush to sponsor town-hall meetings and online forums with voters in search of what the group calls "common-sense conservativesolutions" on the economy, energy, health care and national security.

"Essentially what we did was put this group together to put us in a position where we can go out across thecountry and listen," says Rep. Cantor.

He and other party leaders are trying to turn around two trends that are causing them problems. Inside the GOP,some think the party's first step should be to winnow itself down by wishing farewell to moderates such as Mr.Specter, so those who remain can speak with a more ideologically pure conservative voice. Outside the party,they have to combat the Democrats' portrayal of them as the "party of no."

On the first point, Rep. Cantor says: "There's no question that we want to be an inclusive party." On the second,he says, "If we're not going to agree, in any given instance, we have an obligation to offer alternatives."Inclusive and positive, then, are the goals. On both fronts, Republicans have some distance to travel with thepublic.

REVIEW & OUTLOOK

MAY 5, 2009

Capitalist for the Common Man

The scene was a low-rent Manhattan auditorium, circa 1978. A young Congressman from Buffalo with a raspyvoice and rapid delivery was debating a liberal from central castingabout the necessity of tax-cutting to stimulate economic growthand spread prosperity. Here, we thought, was something exciting:A politician who could speak about the benefits of capitalism forthe average American. The crowd was mainly hostile, but then Jack Kemp never did confine his free-market evangelizing only to thebelievers.

California Governor Ronald Reagan and his special assistant, Jack Kemp, in 1967.

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Kemp, who died Saturday at age 73, was among the most important Congressmen in U.S. history. He wasn'tpowerful because he held a mighty post, and he never served in the House majority. He helped to transform theRepublican Party though he was never its Presidential standard bearer. His influence sprang from the power of his ideas, and from the sincerity and enthusiasm with which he spread them.

A celebrated pro quarterback, Kemp was an unlikely intellectual. Yet amid the economic troubles of the 1970s,he immersed himself in the details of fiscal and monetary policy. Along with a handful of others, many of whom wrote for this newspaper, Kemp became a champion for the classical economic ideas that challenged the

Keynesian orthodoxy of that time. He also had to mount an insurgency inside the Republican Party, which fordecades had been dominated by budget-balancers who saw their fate mainly as moderating and paying forliberal excess.

Along with Senator William Roth of Delaware, Kemp proposed a 30% across-the-board tax cut. Though theDemocrats who ran Congress combined with Old Guard Republicans to defeat it during the Carter Presidency, aGOP candidate by the name of Ronald Reagan liked what he saw. Reagan largely adopted Kemp-Roth as hisown, campaigned on it in 1980, and the proposal eventually became the basis for the 25% income-tax cuts thatfinally took effect in 1983 and became the most successful domestic policy achievement of the modern era. TheKemp-Reagan policy mix of lower taxes to lift incentives, sound money to break inflation, and regulatory relief to unleash entrepreneurs became the foundation for the prosperity of the 1980s and 1990s.

Kemp was a natural partner for Reagan because they both came from nontraditional GOP backgrounds. Like theGipper, Kemp was a man of the middle class who understood and could credibly speak to the concerns of unionmembers. His athletic career exposed him to men of different races and creeds, and he developed the convictionthat economic liberty was even more vital for the poorest Americans than for the affluent.

Importantly, however, and unlike many of today's Republicans, Kemp's populism was inclusive. Across hiscareer, he ventured into neighborhoods where Republicans too rarely tread. His policy innovations includedenterprise zones, public-housing vouchers and a free-trade pact for all of North America. Also like Reagan, hebelieved that immigrants made America stronger and more vibrant. His religious faith was strong but nevercensorious. Kemp's loquacious optimism was contagious, even if he did sometimes get carried away.

One historic imponderable is what might have happened if Reagan had chosen Kemp as his running mate in1980. The idea had support among the Reagan brain trust, but the Gipper went with the allegedly safer pick of George H.W. Bush as a way to unite the GOP. Mr. Bush had famously described Kemp-Roth as "voodooeconomics," but Reagan's success made Mr. Bush the front-runner when he defeated Kemp for the GOPPresidential nod in 1988. Mr. Bush went on to repudiate Reaganomics with his tax increase of 1990 and madehimself a one-term President. He also passed over Kemp as a running mate in 1988, and by the time Bob Doleselected Kemp in 1996 as his vice presidential nominee, the GOP ticket was already doomed.

Kemp's ideas and legacy continue to be relevant for today's Republicans, even if few of them seem to recognizeit. The financial meltdown and recession have given President Obama a chance to revive a policy mix of higherspending and taxes, intrusive regulation and easy money. If those policies don't result in a sustainable expansion-- and history argues that they won't -- then Americans will again be looking for other ideas.

Republicans will need to be ready with Kempian proposals to address middle-class economic anxieties andrevive broadly shared prosperity. The GOP also needs a rhetoric and a demeanor that invite all Americans to itscause. The Kemp-Reagan message was rooted in ideas but it also appealed broadly across ages and incomesbecause of its buoyant temperament. Jack Kemp's admirable life shows that it is possible to be a populistintellectual and a capitalist for the common man.






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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Adams County Republican Party Platform

Be it resolved that as Adams County Republicans, we:

1. want our borders secure.

2. want a common sense immigration policy.

3. want a strong national defense to keep America safe in the war on terror.

4. want the Bush tax cuts made permanent and the tax code simplified.

5. want fiscal responsibility on spending with earmarks eliminated.

6. recognize the sanctity of human life.

7. want local control of the education system with parents having school choice.

8. want market, not government, based solutions.

9. understand that health care is an individual choice, not a government mandate.

10. want gun rights, not gun control.

11. want a smaller, leaner, simpler, and limited government.

12. want paycheck protection in determining how union dues are collected and spent.

13. want the government to Follow the Constitution

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