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A Charge To Keep By George W. Bush at Amazon.com A Charge To Keep is Governor Bush’s campaign biography, and like most campaign biographies it is largely fluff. Books written for campaigns are supposed to put the subject in the best possible light, and this one is no exception. However, reading what the governor considers to be his greatest strengths and most defining moments still gives insights into the kind of man who may be our next president. I won’t try to summarize the book, but I’ll highlight the points that I consider most important. Governor Bush’s faith seems ...

Please help us defeat U.S. Senator Kent Conrad in North Dakota. The Gun Owners of America have given him a grade of F - meaning he is an Anti-Gun Voter: a philosophically committed anti-gunner. (per the ratings available at http://www.gunowners.org) Duane Sand is the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate. Duane fully supports the 2nd Amendment and would back his personal beliefs up with each vote in the Senate. You may review Duane's positions on the issues at the SFS web site, www.sandforsenate.com, as well as read his biography and other background information. Please help get out the word to ...

Republicans will spend the next six weeks anxiously watching political polls. The supposedly insurmountable lead that they expected Governor Bush to ride through November seems to have disappeared. Many pundits are predicting a close but solid victory for Algore. Remembering the past two presidential elections is discouraging to Republicans because both featured Clinton taking a lead in the polls and holding that lead through the election. Republicans who want to be optimistic should look a little further back in time. In 1980, Jimmy Carter led Ronald Reagan in the polls through most of the election season. In spite of the ...

On Saturday, August 19, supporters of Congressman Ron Paul held a birthday party for him at Stahlman Park in Surfside, Texas. The event was a success on all counts. They held a raffle and an auction to raise money for the campaign. Dr. Paul’s children and grandchildren were introduced, and he spoke to the attendees. On a personal level, I spoke to a campaign official who killed an ugly rumor; passed along best wishes from my fellow Freepers; gave the campaign another contribution; had my picture taken with Dr. Paul; and bought a campaign hat. Dr. Paul’s annual birthday Bar-B-Q ...

Join friends and supporters as we celebrate Congressman Ron Paul's Birthday Saturday, August 19, 2000 - 4:00 - 8:00 p.m. Annual Bar-B-Q Stahlman Park, Surfside Beach, TX Auction - Raffle - Door Prizes - Face Painting - Moon Walk Adults $10 donation Children $5 (ages 6-12) Families $30 Pol. ad pd. for by the Committee to Re-elect Ron Paul

Once upon a time, there were three little pigs. They realized it was time to build a little equity and wanted the mortgage deduction, so they decided to build houses. The first little pig built a house of straw. The straw house worked well enough, but along came the big bad wolf. "Open up!" shouted the wolf. "Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin!" replied the pig. "Well then I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll bloooowwwww your house down," answered the wolf. The wolf then gave a mighty blow, and the pig’s house fell with a crash. ...

Thirteen months ago, the United States attacked Yugoslavia when it refused our demands regarding its civil war. After three months, we lowered our demands, and Yugoslavia accepted them. The estimated cost of our actions is over ten billion dollars. We have a responsibility to know what our money bought. The administration claimed that over 100,000 Kosovar Albanians had been killed by the Serbs. Investigators have found about 2,000 bodies. They are not in mass graves as claimed, and no one can identify the ethnic background of either the victims or their killers. Some victims are probably Serbs, and even some ...

DOYLESTOWN - Republican Congressional candidate Tom Lingenfelter today called on Congressman Jim Greenwood to say what in Lingenfelter’s radio ads is "untrue" A Greenwood spokesman in a newspaper interview published this morning said that "Lingenfelter has run a campaign solely on information about Jim, some of which is true, some of which is not." "Jim Greenwood appears desperate and paranoid. Our underfunded grass-roots campaign has him jumping. He’s spent most of his campaign cash and there’s ten days to go," Lingenfelter says. "Now the momentum is all with us. Now it’s up to Greenwood to explain that he isn’t the ...

A lucky contributor to Tom Lingenfelter's Congressional campaign will be rewarded with "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver, serial # 138147. With a hand inscribed 'W' on the gripstrap, this revolver came out of the Cody family, where it was listed in the inventory records as the pistol carried by the young William Cody when he rode for the Pony Express in 1861! 'Buffalo Bill' Cody later recounted numerous episodes from his Pony Express days when he was engaged in running gun battles across the plains - quite possibly using this very pistol! A great piece of Western ...

Are We Slouching Yet? Governor George W. Bush gave a speech last fall in which he castigated conservatives for being pessimistic and looking on the dark side of things. Of course, at the time, he had sixty million dollars in his campaign account and a forty point lead in every poll. With John McCain now ahead in the delegate count after the first "big state" primary, I’ll take Dubya’s advice and try to offer a lighter look at the race for the GOP nomination. February 22nd was certainly a red-letter day for John McCain. With wins in Michigan and Arizona, ...

But It Wouldn’t Work A common argument for keeping abortion legal is some variation on the idea that abortion is wrong, horrible, and the direct end of a human life, but it must remain legal because it cannot be stopped. The main variation of this theme is a statement and rhetorical question: "It won’t stop abortions, so what good would it do?" A simpler variation is the plain statement: "A law against abortion wouldn’t work." A more alarmist variation is the claim that "outlawing abortion would require us to become a police state." This argument isn’t valid provided that a ...

My apologies for the vanity, but I have some questions that I would like someone to ask of Governor Bush and his supporters. I thought that fellow Freepers might be able to add to the questions, suggest some answers, and offer general commentary. I climb on my soapbox for a paragraph after my questions. I'd like to see one George Bush supporter who will answer some of these questions instead of ignoring or attacking the questioner: 1. Governor Bush, you gave Texas two tax cuts, but Steve Forbes points out that state spending in Texas rose faster than federal spending ...

A popular analogy in many conservative discussions is the boiling frog analogy. For those who haven’t heard it, the analogy is as follows. You cannot boil a frog by putting it into a pot of boiling water because the frog will immediately jump out of the pot. Instead, the technique for boiling a frog is to put it in a pot of water at room temperature and warm the water slowly. The frog will swim contentedly until it is cooked. The application of the analogy is supposed to be that moderates who will move us slowly towards liberalism are ...

I’ve given some thought to the attack piece that John Podhoretz wrote about Pat Buchanan and want to address his abundant mistakes, his mischaracterizations, and his smear. I’ve posted parts of this on another message board and will post it on my website. I’m not saying that I would support Mr. Buchanan as a third-party candidate, but I hate seeing him attacked unfairly. I believe his perspectives need to be addressed fairly and respectfully. Isolationism Mr. Buchanan is not isolationist. Those who try to characterize him with that sound-byte are either too shallow to understand his position or too dishonest ...

Tonight, 9/12, C-Span's "Road to the White House" will be featuring a rally for Dan Quayle in New Hampshire. One of the speakers at this rally is an 11-year-old boy who has started an organization called "Kids for Quayle." Although he and his family are in New Hampshire and are trying to make a big push in New Hampshire, I believe that they are open to membership from across the country. In addition to their local events, they have opened a website at http://home.att.net/~kidsforquayle/kidsforquayle.html Eventually, the website will feature commentary by the young man, a newsletter, a message board, and ...

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My name is John S Mandrioli I am writing to you today to Ask you for your support in helping former Vice President Dan Quayle win the NewHampshire primary and eventually the White House. As you know there are many worthy candidates out there but I feel that none are as qualified as Dan Quayle. In 1976 at the age of 29 Dan Quayle was elected to the United States House of Representatives unseating a popular 16-year incumbent In 1977 Dan Quayle introduced a constitutional amendment on term limits. In 1980 at the age of 33 Dan Quayle once again ...

PHOENIX, AZ - Republican presidential candidate Dan Quayle today announced that Congressman and leading conservative Roscoe Bartlett has endorsed his campaign and will serve as the state chair for Quayle 2000 in Maryland. "Dan Quayle shares my dedication to the American farmer. He also believes in a renewal of values, of honesty and integrity. I agree with his bold 30% across the board tax cut and his commitment to strengthening our national security. In my mind, there is no person more qualified to lead our country into the next century," remarked Bartlett, who has represented the sixth congressional district of ...

On July 28, 1986, George W. Bush woke up with a hangover. It had been a loud, liquid night at the venerable Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs as he and friends from Texas celebrated their collective 40th birthdays. Now, as he embarked on his ritual morning run through a spectacular Rockies landscape, Bush felt lousy. Forty: A symbolic halfway point, a moment of appraisal. For the eldest son of the then-vice president of the United States, it had been a year of business crises and personal drift. Bush had closely hewed to his father's path through life - Andover, Yale, ...

See http://www.suc.org/humanitarian/ The S.U.C. "Cry for help" fund has been specifically established in response to the growing needs that have resulted from NATO aggression against Yugoslavia, as a complement to the existing other efforts listed. S.U.C. has been able to identify a number of opportunities for cost-effective acquisition of most needed goods (medical equipment, medication), fast delivery and reliable distribution on the ground. Moneys coming on an ongoing basis into the fund will be used to support these projects, or alternately distributed (passed along to some of the other listed relief organizations) as needed and as is deemed optimal. If ...