McCain Victory 08

Arkansas Republican Delegates to RNC 2008 [ARRA News Service]

editor@arragopwing.com (Bill Smith) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:21:20 -0500

Automatic Delegates:
- Dennis Milligan, RPA Chairman Little Rock (Saline)
- Jim Burnett AR National Committeeman; Little Rock (Van Buren)
- Reta Hamilton AR National Committeewoman; Bella Vista (Benton)
At-Large Delegates:
- Congressman John Boozman Arkansas Delegation Chair; Rogers (Benton)
- Pat Harris Vice Chairman of Arkansas Delegates; Bryant (Saline)
- Anne Britton; Fayetteville (Washington)
- Dixie Carlson; Marion (Crittenden)
- Ann Clemmer; Benton (Saline)
- Elmer Flucht; Mayflower (Mayflower)
- Patricia Greene; Little Rock (Pulaski)
- Jim Harris; Bryant (Saline)
- Julie Harris; Springdale (Washington)
- Prissy Hickerson; Texarkana (Miller)
- French Hill; Little Rock (Pulaski)
- Robin Lundstrum; Springdale (Washington)
- Rep. Mark Martin; Prairie Grove (Washington)
- Doug Matayo; Springdale (Washington)
- Ann Schmuecker; Mountain Home (Baxter)
- Dr. Robert Smith, Sr.; Little Rock (Pulaski)
- Doyle Webb; Benton (Saline)
- Joseph Wood; Fayetteville (Washington)
- Duane Neal; Bentonville (Benton)
District Delegates:
1st CD:
- Joe LeBlanc: Mountain Home (Baxter)
- Gerald Fulbright; Locust Grove (Independence)
- Dorothy Crockett; Osceola (Mississippi)
2nd CD:
- Bonnie Davis; Sherwood (Pulaski)
- Charles Mazander; Benton (Saline)
- John Parke; Little Rock (Pulaski)
3rd CD:
- Jonathan Barnett; Siloam Springs (Benton)
- Jim Reavis; Fayetteville (Washington)
- Susan Gessler; Fayetteville (Washington)
4th CD:
- Barbara Deuschele; Hot Springs (Garland)
- Mary Ann Lewis; Hope (Hempstead)
- Bill Poynter; Texarkana (Miller)
At Large Alternates:
- Liza Freeman Wright; Little Rock (Pulaski)
- Collette LaBlanc; Mountain Home (Baxter)
- Lucy Ralston; Fayetteville (Washington)
- Aaron Black; North Little Rock (Pulaski)
- Steve Hollowell; Forrest City (St. Francis)
- Vicki Boozman; Cave Springs (Benton)
- Wayne Bowen; Arkadelphia (Clark)
- Maezetta Ramsey; Fayeteville (Washington)
- David McCoy; Benton (Benton)
- Rick Caldwell; Little Rock (Pulaski)
- Jason Tolbert; Benton (Saline)
- Meredith Novak; Mountain Home (Baxter)
- Leslie Rutledge; Little Rock (Pulaski)
- Marty Benedict; Fayetteville (Washington)
- Dale Benedict; Fayetteville (Washington)
- Stacey Utley; Cabot (Lonoke)
- Lauren Huckabee; Little Rock (Pulaski)
Congressional District Alternates:
1st CD:
- Bobbi Dodge; West Memphis (Crittenden)
- Donnie Scroggins; Truman (Poinsett)
- Ralph Myers, III; McCrory (Woodruff)
2nd CD:
- Mozella Flucht; Mayflower (Mayflower)
- Christian Olson; Little Rock (Pulaski)
- JoNell Caldwell; Little Rock (Pulaski)
3rd CD:
- Cathy Boozman; Rogers (Benton)
- Dr. Lew Britton; Fayetteville (Washington)
- Jonathan Harris; Springdale (Washington)
4th CD:
- Jana Kay Starr; Nashville (Howard)
- Jennifer Parks; El Dorado (Union)
- Nita Waddell; Hope (Hempstead)
Delegate Alternates:
- Dr. John Jucas; El Dorado (Union)
- Kermit Parks; El Dorado (Union)

Convention News [McCainVictory08]

madirishmaninc@comcast.net (Mad) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:22:33 -0500

The Irish-American Republicans Convention Party

Seacoast Super Saturday--How you can help Sen. McCain!

"Worship me"

Support Jeb Bradley for Congress

MR: Of Course They Have

Unprecedented McCain Ad

Granite State Update 8.26.2008

To All Of Our Friends That Will Be At The Republican National Convention . . .

Centerfield will be our HeadQuarters for our entire stay!  

The event will take place in the heart of downtown Minneapolis historic 
warehouse district at the newly opened Centerfields (formally Fatsos),  located 
at 119 North Fourth Street at the corners of North 4th Street and 2nd Avenue 
North

Let'sGetThisRight.com is very excited about Centerfield being our home base for 
this Main Street Media during the RNC convention.

We are  throwing  a "Grizzly Groundswell Strategy to flex the Main Street Media 
Muscle party" right there at Centerfield.  Wednesday from 4-6PM CST.  FREE FOOD 
and Cash Bar.  We will have various candidates that LetsGetThisRight.com has 
endorsed and all the Main Street Media outlets to meet our Main Street Media 
members. 

GrizzlyGroundswell.com, LetsGetThisRight.com and BlogTalkRadio.com have united 
in this effort and this Grizzly Groundswell Strategy.

PLEASE JOIN US!

Slainte'
Sheridan Folger

Election 08 Action Items [McCainVictory08]

madirishmaninc@comcast.net (Mad) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:22:05 -0500

Election 08 Action Items
August 27, 2008

Dear Folger,

The Republican National Convention starts Monday and the election is right around the corner. I wanted to let you know about a few of the things we have going on and how you can help and we need your help!

Unprecedented Coverage of the Republican National Convention!

Dozens of the McCainVictory08.com bloggers have been credentialed into the Republican National Convention. We will have more Main Street Media bloggers in St. Paul than most news organizations have reporters! We are partnering with Let'sGetThisRight.com and GrizzlyGroundswell.com in an unprecedented effort to cover the convention as the new Main Street Media with dozens of bloggers on site, over 40 Blog Talk Radio shows and at least two channels of 24/7 streaming video.

Help us get the word out about this exciting new coverage of the convention and more importantly, the spin of the main stream media. It's easy.

Just click the hyperlink above to McCainVictory08.com. In the right sidebar you will find the widget under Citizen Journalists Unite. In the bottom right hand corner, click on the share button
and you can automatically upload the widget to a blog, your Facebook or
MySpace page or any number of other social networking sites. Anyone who
visits your blog or SocNet profile will be able to access all our new
media content. You don't need to do anything else!

Help us move beyond the Internet!

As
you know, we are all just online activists and volunteers, working to
support John McCain and the Republican party. However, tens of
thousands of potential boots on the ground volunteers still get the
bulk of their news and information from their local newspapers. We need your help!

We don't have a huge budget. Heck, we don't have a budget at all! We have passion and dedication but there is a limit to what we can do. PR firms and press release services charge hundreds to thousands of dollars for a single press release. We need to get our message out to these local papers, many of whom will reprint a well written press release as a news story!

Please help us by sending us the e-mail contact for a political reporter or the news department of your local paper at mediarelations@letsgetthisright.com and we will add it to our growing list of media contacts. You will be helping get John McCain's message of Country First and Securing America's Future out to thousands of people.

Support John McCain by Supporting Republican Candidates!

Unlike Barack Obama, Senator McCain has not reneged on his promise
to accept public financing for the general election. The Obama money
machine will have at least twice what the McCain campaign will have to
spend for the general election. You still have until September 1st to
donate directly to the McCain Campaign.

However, we have a strategy to support not only John McCain but Republican Candidates in crucial battleground states as well. Working with our partners at www.letsgethisright.com
we have already endorsed and are raising money for 14 candidates in key
states such as Florida, Texas, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
others. In fact on Friday we will be announcing four more Congressional candidates in key districts in Florida.

By empowering these candidates to run robust campaigns, you are helping bring out volunteers to register people to vote, make phone calls and go door-to-door in support of these Republican candidates. This will in turn help the McCain campaign in these crucial states and push
back against the Democratic machine of PAC and special interest money
that are literally sending millions of dollars from around the country
to effect these local races.

Please visit our Slatecard to review our candidates and make a contribution to Senator McCain and some or all of our endorsed candidates.

I am sorry that this was such a long message but there is simply so much going on that I wanted to share with you. I will be in St. Paul for the convention from the 2nd to 4th and
couldn't be more excited. If you have any questions or suggestions for
stories our bloggers should go after please feel free to use my personal email.

Sincerely,

Brad Marston

McCain Victory 08

Let's Get This Right
McCain Now

Convention News [Local Republican Races]

madirishmaninc@comcast.net (Mad) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:20:52 -0500

The Irish-American Republicans Convention Party

Seacoast Super Saturday--How you can help Sen. McCain!

"Worship me"

Support Jeb Bradley for Congress

MR: Of Course They Have

Unprecedented McCain Ad

Granite State Update 8.26.2008

To All Of Our Friends That Will Be At The Republican National Convention . . .

Centerfield will be our HeadQuarters for our entire stay!  

The event will take place in the heart of downtown Minneapolis historic 
warehouse district at the newly opened Centerfields (formally Fatsos),  located 
at 119 North Fourth Street at the corners of North 4th Street and 2nd Avenue 
North

Let'sGetThisRight.com is very excited about Centerfield being our home base for 
this Main Street Media during the RNC convention.

We are  throwing  a "Grizzly Groundswell Strategy to flex the Main Street Media 
Muscle party" right there at Centerfield.  Wednesday from 4-6PM CST.  FREE FOOD 
and Cash Bar.  We will have various candidates that LetsGetThisRight.com has 
endorsed and all the Main Street Media outlets to meet our Main Street Media 
members. 

GrizzlyGroundswell.com, LetsGetThisRight.com and BlogTalkRadio.com have united 
in this effort and this Grizzly Groundswell Strategy.

PLEASE JOIN US!

Slainte'
Sheridan Folger

CONVENTION NEWS [Battleground States 08]

madirishmaninc@comcast.net (Mad) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:20:02 -0500

The Irish-American Republicans Convention Party

Seacoast Super Saturday--How you can help Sen. McCain!

"Worship me"

Support Jeb Bradley for Congress

MR: Of Course They Have

Unprecedented McCain Ad

Granite State Update 8.26.2008

To All Of Our Friends That Will Be At The Republican National Convention . . .

Centerfield will be our HeadQuarters for our entire stay!  

The event will take place in the heart of downtown Minneapolis historic 
warehouse district at the newly opened Centerfields (formally Fatsos),  located 
at 119 North Fourth Street at the corners of North 4th Street and 2nd Avenue 
North

Let'sGetThisRight.com is very excited about Centerfield being our home base for 
this Main Street Media during the RNC convention.

We are  throwing  a "Grizzly Groundswell Strategy to flex the Main Street Media 
Muscle party" right there at Centerfield.  Wednesday from 4-6PM CST.  FREE FOOD 
and Cash Bar.  We will have various candidates that LetsGetThisRight.com has 
endorsed and all the Main Street Media outlets to meet our Main Street Media 
members. 

GrizzlyGroundswell.com, LetsGetThisRight.com and BlogTalkRadio.com have united 
in this effort and this Grizzly Groundswell Strategy.

PLEASE JOIN US!

Slainte'
Sheridan Folger

Convention News [Mad Irish Man's Conservative Consortium]

madirishmaninc@comcast.net (Mad) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:18:33 -0500

The Irish-American Republicans Convention Party

Seacoast Super Saturday--How you can help Sen. McCain!

"Worship me"

Support Jeb Bradley for Congress

MR: Of Course They Have

Unprecedented McCain Ad

Granite State Update 8.26.2008

To All Of Our Friends That Will Be At The Republican National Convention . . .

Centerfield will be our HeadQuarters for our entire stay!  

The event will take place in the heart of downtown Minneapolis historic 
warehouse district at the newly opened Centerfields (formally Fatsos),  located 
at 119 North Fourth Street at the corners of North 4th Street and 2nd Avenue 
North

Let'sGetThisRight.com is very excited about Centerfield being our home base for 
this Main Street Media during the RNC convention.

We are  throwing  a "Grizzly Groundswell Strategy to flex the Main Street Media 
Muscle party" right there at Centerfield.  Wednesday from 4-6PM CST.  FREE FOOD 
and Cash Bar.  We will have various candidates that LetsGetThisRight.com has 
endorsed and all the Main Street Media outlets to meet our Main Street Media 
members. 

GrizzlyGroundswell.com, LetsGetThisRight.com and BlogTalkRadio.com have united 
in this effort and this Grizzly Groundswell Strategy.

PLEASE JOIN US!

Slainte'
Sheridan Folger

Con-Man CARL SEEL & Rep. 'Beautiful's' White Knight BRO [POLITICO MAFIOSO]

noreply@blogger.com (Tony GOPrano) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:18:00 -0500

More Articles on Russell Pearce CLICK HERE

And HERE

John McCain 2008 Launches New Web Video: "Remote Control" [POLITICO MAFIOSO]

noreply@blogger.com (Tony GOPrano) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:13:00 -0500

ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today released its web video, entitled "Remote Control." The video features Democrats, in their own words, questioning Barack Obama's ability to lead in this dangerous world. With the United States facing incredible challenges from abroad, these Democrats rightly said Barack Obama did not have the experience and judgment to be president.

VIEW THE WEB VIDEO HERE: http://blip.tv/file/1209861

The Irish-American Republicans Convention Party [Mad Irish Man's Conservative Consortium]

madirishmaninc@comcast.net (Mad) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:11:05 -0500

Please join

The Irish-American Republicans

www.IrishGOP.com

for a Victory Celebration

and the official launch of

Irish for McCain

at the 2008 Republican National Convention

WHERE: Minneapolis City Hall - Rotunda
350 South Fifth Street
Minneapolis, Minnesota

WHEN: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
6:00 pm â€“ 8:00 pm

Please visit our website for more information

www.IrishGOP.com

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Seacoast Super Saturday--How you can help Sen. McCain! [Mad Irish Man's Conservative Consortium]

madirishmaninc@comcast.net (Mad) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:02:04 -0500

You're Invited to

***Seacoast Super Saturday***

THIS SATURDAY

August 30, 2008

10:00AM-8:00PM

151 Portsmouth Avenue, Stratham

Shifts available throughout the day

*Make phone calls and walk door-to-door to identify supporters*

FREE COFFEE AND DONUTS
in the morning

FREE PIZZA AND SODA
at lunch

Last Saturday was a huge success with lotsof volunteer. Let's make this Saturday is even bigger!

There are only 68 days left until the election and there is no time to wait!

Senator McCain and the rest of our candidates need your help now! Our goal is to reach thousands of voters as a team with a united front on Saturday, but we cant do it without YOU.

PLEASE RSVP to Jonathan Gabyto confirm your shift for THIS SATURDAY.

jgaby@mccain08hq.com or call 603-778-1154

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McCain ad to rebut Obama's DNC speech By MIKE ALLEN Politico.com [POLITICO MAFIOSO]

noreply@blogger.com (Tony GOPrano) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:00:00 -0500

8/28/08 11:15 AM EST

Tonight,
John McCain will talk directly to his opponent in a television ad his campaign is airing in battleground states, around the time Barack Obama accepts the presidential nomination, McCain's campaign said.

Aides would give few details beyond the fact that McCain will speak directly to the camera, addressing Obama.

The strip-tease on the ad is one of several moves by the McCain campaign that could distract attention from Obama's big night.

The campaign was fueling speculation about his running mate, who is to be named at a McCain rally in Ohio tomorrow. A top campaign official says McCain has settled on his vice presidential choice and will notify the person today.

Matt Drudge of The Drudge Report, who has high-level McCain contacts, posted a tease this morning saying: "SOURCE: NAME MAY LEAK AT 6 PM ET... WITH SOME SORT OF CONFIRMATION AT 8 PM."

Obama is scheduled to speak between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Eastern before a crowd of about 75,000 at a Denver stadium where the final session of the Democratic National Convention is being staged.

The leak of the McCain ticket mate would cause a news frenzy at at time when the Obama campaign wanted viewers to be focused on Obama's economic and change messages.

McCain campaign communications director Jill Hazelbaker said in an MSNBC appearance that the battleground spot is "an historic ad — I think this is the first of its kind."

Sen. McCain is going to have an ad that's going to air in battleground states around the time that Sen. Obama is speaking tonight," Hazelbaker said. "He's going to be talking directly to his opponent. So, I'm going to leave it there. But it's going be very exciting. I think that a lot of people are going to focus on it."

Asked about his veep choice by KDKA radio in Pittsburgh this morning, McCain said coyly: "I haven't decided yet, so I can't
tell you."Friends say he has told his inner circle of his pick, but won't call the decision official until he has discussed it with his wife, Cindy, who has been in the country of Georgia.

Possibilities include Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge.

AP's Liz Sidoti reported: "Inside GOP circles Thursday, speculation swirled around Lieberman. It was fueled by reports that McCain's advisers had asked for additional detailed information from him, by McCain's close friendship with the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee, and by word that Republican operatives had been told to prepare for the possibility of an 'unconventional' choice."

ARIZONA SPORTSMAN FOR WILDLIFE Endorse TONY BOUIE for LD-6 House [POLITICO MAFIOSO]

noreply@blogger.com (Tony GOPrano) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:49:00 -0500

The Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife is a local
organization that works to make Arizona Sportsmen an effective force in determining political, legislative, educational and administrative issues that
promote wildlife, wildlife habitat and the continuation of Arizona’s hunting and fishing traditions.

Click on the Press Release below to See Larger:

In Case You Missed It: Bill Clinton On "Candidate X" And "Candidate Y" [POLITICO MAFIOSO]

noreply@blogger.com (Tony GOPrano) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:39:00 -0500

"For example, you're a voter, and you have
Candidate X and Candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything. But you
don't think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you
on half the issues, but you believe that, on the other half, the candidate will
be able to deliver. For whom will you vote?" -- President Bill
Clinton

Bill Clinton Remarks
August 26, 2008

President Bill Clinton: "For example, you're a voter, and you have Candidate X and Candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything. But you don't think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that, on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver. For whom will you vote?"

Watch Bill Clinton's Comments

The Devils in His Details - By George Will [POLITICO MAFIOSO]

noreply@blogger.com (Tony GOPrano) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:32:00 -0500

August 28, 2008

DENVER -- When Barack Obama feeds rhetorical fishes and loaves to the multitudes in the football stadium Thursday night, he should deliver a message of sufficient particularity that it seems particularly suited to Americans. One more inspirational oration, one general enough to please Berliners or even his fellow "citizens of the world," will confirm Pascal's point that "continuous eloquence wearies." That is so because it is not really eloquent. If it is continuous, it is necessarily formulaic and abstract, vague enough for any time and place, hence truly apposite for none.

If Socrates had engaged in an interminable presidential campaign in a media-drenched age, perhaps he, too, would have come
to seem banal. But the fact that Obama lost nine of the final 14 primaries might have something to do with the fact that when he descends from the ether to practicalities, he reprises liberalism's most shopworn nostrums.

Russia, a third-world nation with first-world missiles, is rampant; Iran is developing a missile inventory capable of delivering nuclear weapons the development of which will not be halted by Obama's promised "aggressive personal diplomacy." Yet Obama has vowed to "cut investments in unproven missile defense systems." Steamboats, railroads, airplanes and vaccines were "unproven" until farsighted people made investments. Furthermore, as Reuel Marc Gerecht of the American Enterprise Institute notes, Democrats will eventually embrace missile defense in Europe because they "will have nowhere else to go short of pre-emptive strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities."

Obama, who might be the last person to learn that schools' cognitive outputs are not simply functions of financial inputs, promises more money for teachers, who, as usual, are about 10 percent of the Democrats' convention delegates and alternates. He waxes indignant about approximately 150,000 jobs sent overseas each year -- less than 1 percent of the number of jobs normally lost and gained in the creative destruction of America's dynamic economy. U.S. exports are fending off a recession while he complains about free trade. He deplores NAFTA, although since it was implemented in 1994 the U.S., Mexican and Canadian economies have grown 50 percent, 46 percent and 54 percent, respectively.

Recycling George McGovern's 1972 "Demogrant" notion, Obama promises a $1,000 check for every family, financed by a "windfall profits" tax on oil companies. Obama is unintimidated by the rule against legislating about subjects one cannot define.

Obama thinks government is not getting a "reasonable share" of oil companies' profits, which in 2007 were, as a percentage of revenues (8.3 percent), below those of U.S. manufacturing generally (8.9 percent). Exxon Mobil pays almost as much in corporate taxes to various governments as the bottom 50 percent of American earners pay in income taxes. Exxon Mobil does make $1,400 a second in profits -- hear the sharp intakes of breath from liberals with pursed lips -- but pays $4,000 a second in taxes and $15,000 a second in operating costs.

Obama's rhetorical extravagances are inversely proportional to his details, as when he promises "nothing less than a complete transformation of our economy" in order to "end the age of oil." The diminished enthusiasm of some voters hitherto receptive to his appeals might have something to do with the seepage of reality from his rhetoric. Voters understand that neither the "transformation" nor the "end" will or should occur. His dreamy certitude that "alternative" fuels will quickly become real alternatives is an energy policy akin to an old vaudeville joke: "If we had some eggs, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some ham."

When he speaks Thursday night in a venue consecrated to the faux combat of football, the NATO alliance, which was 12 years old when he was born, may be collapsing because of its unwillingness to help enough in Afghanistan and its inability to respond seriously to Russia's combat in Georgia. It is unfair to neither NATO nor Obama to note that the alliance is practicing what he preaches: It is preaching to Vladimir Putin, who is unimpressed. NATO, said Lord Ismay, speaking of Europe in 1949, was created to "keep the Americans in, the Germans down and the Russians out." That Germany's appeasement reflex is part of NATO's weakness is perhaps progress, of sorts.

Journalism often must be preoccupied with matters barely remembered a week later. But decades hence, historians will write about today's response to Russia by the West, perhaps in obituaries for the idea of "the West." If Obama does not speak to this crisis Thursday night, that will speak volumes.

Danger of Islam in Holland - Commentary By HJS [POLITICO MAFIOSO]

noreply@blogger.com (Tony GOPrano) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:14:00 -0500

In these pages the last few years, we have said over and over that the people of Holland are dangerously close to losing their culture and their country. It is not the only European country with these problems. After World War II, Europe was in the grip of unchecked liberalism (socialism/communism). As a result of liberal teaching and economic problems that follow this teaching, fewer couples married and even fewer allowed their babies to complete the birth cycle. This horror in turn led to fewer people left and fewer babies planned, to pay for them.

When the liberals had to choose between pulling back a little on some of their social programs and importing people from other lands, they preferred the latter, even though the latter included people of a completely different ideology. This catastrophe was the change that those liberals could believe in.

The liberals could not see the ideological differences, nor did they
consider it important; after all, they loved multiculturalism and were dedicated
to the idea (never proven) that two incompatible cultures and ideologies could live side by side when one (the Dutch) is tolerant of different cultures and the other (Islam) is not. From a very early age, children in Islam are taught that people who are not believers, called infidels, are not worthy to live. Not all change is good. The miracle of Holland is that there has not been a civil war yet.

We may be the Holland of the future if we continue to follow the path of least resistance, believing only what is easy to believe and not looking beyond the wiles and the platitudes of a party that only represents itself. Too many people now embrace a party whose platform includes sacrificing everything to the god of killing babies, de-sanctifying marriage, and promoting pornography and other vices. Those are not American values. But it has been the changes the liberals wanted.

And now, please read the following cry of anguish from a desperate representative of the Dutch people, to the Dutch Parliament. He too wants change; he wants the return of his culture and his country.

HJS