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To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (91)	2/7/2008 5:41:43 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 111

Quo vadis, Strong Border Security Champions By Michelle Malkin • February 7, 2008 I filed an extra, post-Super Tuesday syndicated column this week. Felt like we needed a pep talk. Ignore John McCain. Don’t “calm down.” Get fired up! *** “Quo vadis,” conservatives? It’s the ancient, apocryphal question the apostle Peter asked Jesus while fleeing persecution in Rome. Where are you going? Where do we go from here? The contest for the GOP presidential nomination is over. The conservative movement is not. Sen. John McCain’s campaign resurrection and Super Tuesday victory leave a diverse group on the Right—from the libertarian Club for Growth to First Amendment defenders to immigration enforcement proponents—dispirited. But the failure to nominate a true Republican unifier does not spell ideological defeat. On Wednesday, wielding his olive branch like a schoolmarm’s ruler, Sen. McCain told conservatives to “calm down.” My advice is exactly the opposite: Get fired up. Some on the Right advise their readers and listeners to vote Democrat or sit home. My advice is exactly the opposite: Get off the couch and walk the walk for conservative candidates and officeholders who need all the help they can get defending free markets, free minds, and secure borders—no matter who takes the White House in November. Dissatisfied with the flawed crop of GOP candidates who lacked the energy, organizational skills, and ideological strength to carry the conservative banner and ignite your passions? Then pay attention to the next generation of Republican state legislators who do vote consistently to lower your taxes, uphold the sanctity of life, defend marriage, and cut government spending. Support their re-election bids. Reward them for standing with you instead of their Democrat opponents and the liberal media. Look at Barack Obama. Four years ago, he was in the Illiniois legislature. Now, he’s on the cusp of the presidency. If you can’t stomach John McCain, channel your support and energies to Republicans who do represent your values and who have treated the conservative base as allies instead of enemies. There are a new generation of combat veterans running for office who haven’t made a career of trashing the base. Check out staunch economic, social, and national security conservative congressional candidates like Iraq/Afghanistan veteran Eric Egland in California’s fourth district. Check out the Vets for Freedom (vetsforfreedom.org) group for their endorsements. Opposed to the amnesty bill? Republican Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, and John Cornyn of Texas all fought the McCain-Kennedy-Graham-Martinez-Bush open-borders disaster. All of those Senators are up for re-election this year. Send them some money. Then send a few more bucks to the enforcement proponents on the House side as well. Don’t sit and wait for the fence to get built. It won’t be finished under the Bush administration or a McCain administration or an Obama or Hillary Clinton administration. What you can do is pressure mayors and police chiefs and city councils to rescind dangerous sanctuary policies. What you can do is alert county sheriffs that you want them to work with the feds to end illegal alien catch-and-release policies in your neighborhood.. What you can do is stop patronizing businesses that you know are knowingly employing illegal immigrants using fake Ids and stolen Social Security numbers. There are other vital issues on the ballot this fall that need conservative backing. Conservative stalwart Ward Connerly is leading a “Super Tuesday of Equality” drive in November to end racial preferences in five states. He has not only battled the race demagogues on the Left and the affirmative action apologists in the media, but also spineless GOP establishment leaders who would rather pander to the “diversity” lobby than fight for true equality under the law. Connerly spearheaded resounding victories in California, Washington, and Michigan. The new campaign is targeting Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Support his organization, the American Civil Rights Institute (www.acri.org). Twenty-six years ago at the Conservative Political Action Conference, President Reagan rallied conservatives: “We must ask ourselves tonight how we can forge and wield a popular majority from one end of this country to the other, a majority united on basic, positive goals with a platform broad enough and deep enough to endure long into the future, far beyond the lifespan of any single issue or personality.” Get involved. Don’t calm down. Get fired up. michellemalkin.com

To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (91)	2/8/2008 6:43:02 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 111

Have you registered at numbersusa.com? They have a fax crusade reminding members of congress of their duty to uphold immigration laws, and casting the correct vote on the issue in 2008. Once you register, they automatically forward the fax to your rep. They also grade ea congress person's record on illegal immigration.

To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (91)	2/11/2008 11:27:36 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 111

Here's a challenge to McCain to introduce legislation NOW to secure the border, in order to prove to sceptics that his change of heart is not just an election yr conversion: >Mike Pence: Best Advice to McCain by Jed Babbin, humanevents.com 02/11/2008 The olive twig that John McCain held out to conservatives last Thursday didn’t have a lot of leaves on it. The loud boos that interrupted him at the first mention of illegal immigration may have shown him how deep the divide was that separates him from many conservatives, but the boo-birds won’t change McCain. McCain reminded me of Popeye’s refrain, “I yam what I yam and that’s all that I yam.” And -- after the reception he got at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) -- McCain probably realizes that he could say the same of conservative activists. Which -- absent one of those miracles Mike Huckabee seems to be waiting for -- means that we are stuck with each other through this election. How can we cope with each other? More importantly, in a year that the media have decided should be a disaster for the Republican Party, what can we do to prevent Hillary or Barack from becoming president? Just as urgently, how do we prevent the Senate Republican minority from being so reduced that even if HC or BO become C-in-C they won’t be able to pass any of the horribles they’d impose on us, from defeat in Iraq to more out-of-control entitlement programs? There is a way. In what was the least-noticed and far and away the best speech at CPAC, silver-haired Hoosier Rep. Mike Pence began to chart it the day after McCain addressed the same group. Pence began with a hard-hitting description of the choices this year. Between a candidate who will defend our nation and the military and one (it matters not whether it’s Hillary or Barack) who subscribes to retreat, defeat and surrender. Between one whose promises of fiscal restraint are provable and one who cannot wait to take our bloated government and give it more to spend. And between one whose pro-life record is consistent and one who will do everything to promote the abortion rights agenda, especially when it comes time to appoint Supreme Court justices. About Sen. McCain, Pence said, “I did not endorse the Senator from Arizona. We have clashed on the issues too many times for that. But let me say from my heart, based on what I've personally seen of Senator McCain from the floor of Congress to the “watchfires of circling camps” in Baghdad and Ramadi, I could support Senator McCain for President of the United States.” Could, not would. Pence said, “But he's going to have to take a little advice from a friend.” Pence’s advice listed McCain’s promises to make the Bush tax cuts permanent, fight big government spending, secure the borders first, appoint conservative judges and stand for the sanctity of life. And then came the challenge to Sen. McCain: "These are the specifics that conservatives need to hear and keep hearing. But now it’s time for deeds. You can begin keeping those promises today. Whether this party comes together to support you as the nominee depends on your actions. So I offer you this challenge: If you will continue to run on conservative issues and continue to build a solid conservative team and ticket, we can and will support you and work our hearts out to elect you as the 44th President of the United States. You’ve claimed the Reagan mantle. Show us you know how to use it." And he cautioned us to accept McCain’s actions on these lines if they come. Sen. McCain would do well to accept and act on Mike Pence’s advice. He has more than six months before the Republican Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, an eternity in politics. In that time, he can do a lot to unify the party and perhaps prevent the congressional election debacle the media is panting after. McCain’s advantage is that he is a sitting senator. For starters, he could introduce legislation to show he means what he says in “securing the borders first.” Sens. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala) and Jim DeMint (R-SC) were among his most determined opponents in last summer’s Bush-McCain-Kennedy disaster. If he can work with them and agree on a “borders first” bill, he could defuse a huge amount of conservative dissent. He could do the same on the Bush tax cut permanence and go farther, eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax. And while he does this, he could name a committee of advisors to help select a conservative running mate, publishing the committee’s charter to prove that his direction to them is to find not only a politically-advantageous choice, but one who is as unshakably conservative as any of us could demand. In doing these things, McCain can help conservatives rally around him. And if he campaigns on these actions -- no matter how long his selection of a running mate takes -- he can help Republican senators who are targeted by the left this year. We conservatives should rally around those conservatives as well, even if we disagree with them on some points. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) is the target of MoveOn.org, which has opened a separate office in Louisville to organize McConnell’s downfall. Conservatives may occasionally argue with McConnell about earmarks, but his skill in stopping Harry Reid’s agenda cold cannot be lost to us in the next congress. None of the legislation McCain would introduce would pass this year, but it would put him on record more than mere speechifying can ever do. As Mike Pence said, it’s time for McCain to act. And if he continues to embrace the right, the right -- as much as most of us will have to grit our teeth to do it -- must embrace him. If CPAC were a NASCAR race, Mike Pence would have lapped the rest of the field. It would cost John McCain little to act on Pence’s advice. And it could win him the White House if he does. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Babbin is the editor of Human Events. He served as a deputy undersecretary of defense in President George H.W. Bush's administration.