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To: Captain Jack who wrote (73)	11/5/2004 6:15:50 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Conservatives urge Bush to go his own way By Ralph Z. Hallow and James G. Lakely THE WASHINGTON TIMES Conservative activists say President Bush should push forward with his second-term mandate ratified by 59 million voters on Election Day, including a constitutional amendment banning same-sex "marriage." On issues ranging from tax cuts to Social Security to abortion, Republican stalwarts yesterday said the president should stick to his winning campaign agenda, rejecting calls to "reach out" to the Democratic minority in Congress. "Democrats still don't get it," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. "What they want Bush to do — change the goals he told voters he'd get done if they gave him a second term — isn't going to happen. Why? Because even more than Reagan, Bush is an agenda president." Pat Buchanan yesterday declared Mr. Bush's re-election — with 22 percent of voters naming moral issues as most important — a victory in the "culture war" that was the subject of Mr. Buchanan's famous 1992 Republican convention speech. "George W. Bush was re-elected president because he turned this election into a triumphal, epic battle of the cultural war as his father refused to do in 1992," said Mr. Buchanan, who challenged the first President Bush in the 1992 Republican primaries. "The son stuck by his party's platform and themes as his father did not." The surprising emphasis on moral issues found in exit polls heartened social conservatives, as did the results from 11 states, including the battleground of Ohio, where bans on same-sex "marriage" were approved by voters. Robert Knight of the Culture and Family Institute called the success of the marriage amendments a reaction to the Massachusetts court ruling that legalized such unions in Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry's home state. "What Bush should do first," Mr. Knight said, "is to send a bouquet of flowers to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, whose clinically insane ruling against marriage ... set the tone for the showdown that occurred [Tuesday]." A wide array of conservative groups, including the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), declared Tuesday's election a ratification of their positions. The NRA said 95 percent of the candidates it backed, including 14 of 18 Senate candidates, were elected. The NRLC cited a poll showing that of the 42 percent of voters who said abortion affected their vote, 56 percent voted for Mr. Bush. Steven Moore, president of the Club for Growth, cited victories for 14 candidates backed by his group — including six winning Senate candidates who got $2.3 million from Club for Growth members — as proof that "on Capitol Hill, tax cutting is in, big government is out." Democrats, however, denied that the election provided the president with any kind of mandate. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, said Wednesday that Mr. Bush "didn't have a case to make on the issues" in his campaign and won by exploiting "wedge issues" that have little relevance to setting a domestic agenda for the country. But a spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texas Republican, said Tuesday's Republican gains in both houses of Congress were an outright rejection of the Democratic agenda. "Republicans gaining seats in the House and Senate for the second cycle in a row and winning the White House for the second presidential election in a row is clear evidence that the voters trust the Republican Party as the governing party of choice," said DeLay spokesman Jonathan Grella. "Democrats would be foolish to insist that Republicans can't get the job done without them." In the wake of Mr. Bush's re-election, several pundits, commentators and editorials called for the president to seek compromise with congressional Democrats. Gary Bauer, president of the conservative advocacy group American Values, sees a double standard behind such calls for moderation. "If Senator Kerry had won by 3.5 million votes and had taken five Republican Senate seats with him, no one in the chattering class of Washington, D.C., would be saying anything other than he had a mandate and that conservatives have lost the country," said Mr. Bauer, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. Cooperating with Democrats should not impede the president's agenda, Mr. Bauer added: "There's nothing wrong with sitting down and working out details on issues. But the president would be very wise to move ahead on the things he cares about. That's what the people voted for him to do." A senior Republican congressional aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Democrats would be deluding themselves if they think their strong opposition to Mr. Bush — including filibustering his judicial nominees — is going to work any better the next four years. "They are sending the wrong signal to the president and voters by saying that right after the Republicans win, it's time to trim their sails and the mandate they sailed in on," the aide said. "Does anyone believe it feasible that we would embrace a Democratic agenda after we just won all over the country with ours?" Describing Democrats' opposition during Mr. Bush's first term as an "extended temper tantrum," the aide warned that Democrats could render themselves "politically irrelevant" if they repeat that performance in the president's second term. "They lost," the aide said. "They have to come to grips with that." washingtontimes.com

To: Captain Jack who wrote (73)	11/9/2004 11:15:23 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

ACU Sends Congratulations, Thanks to Massachusetts Chief Justice for Making Big Bush Victory Possible ALEXANDRIA, VA – Earlier today, American Conservative Union Chairman David A. Keene sent the following letter to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall: Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall On Beacon Street, 3rd Floor Boston, MA 02108 Dear Justice Marshall: On behalf of the American Conservative Union, its Board of Directors and ACU’s one million members permit me to offer our heartiest congratulations and thanks for almost single-handedly making possible President George W. Bush’s historic election victory. In considering the innumerable Americans who labored so hard and so long to achieve this singular electoral result – from Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman to the legions of Republican volunteers – it appears self-evident that your alone deserve the lion’s share of the credit for this truly stunning election triumph. Were it not for you and your fellow liberal activists on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, it is doubtful that 11 states would have been compelled to put measures on their November 2nd ballots to preserve the institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Had it not been for your courageous decision to ignore the will of the people of the Bay State, turn your back on 4,000 years of Judeo-Christian moral teaching, and unilaterally impose your own progressive personal opinions on the law, marriage might never have become the defining issue of the 2004 presidential election. Yes, Justice Marshall, it was your unrestrained hubris that brought about the demise of your fellow Bay State liberal, Sen. John F. Kerry. For had you not sought to foist on your unwilling citizens a bizarre deconstruction of the law, hundreds of thousands of traditional-values voters might not have been mobilized to go to the polls in Ohio to protect marriage from such judicial depredations and to cast ballots to re-elect the President. So please accept the undying gratitude of ACU and conservatives all across America for single-handedly delivering the election to George W. Bush. Sincerely, David A. Keene Chairman To arrange for an interview with David Keene contact Ian Walters at (703) 836-8602 x16 or by email at iwalters@conservative.org conservative.org