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"Fasten your seat belts... As moderate and conservative pro-choice Republicans are we happy with the results of the Florida primary? Yes and no. Our first choice, Rudy Giuliani, did not win. He ran a campaign with a risky strategy and it didn't work. But our number two choice did win...John McCain. McCain came in second in a survey of our membership. While he is personally "pro life" he has time and again reached out and worked with people across the spectrum. We know we can work with him to create common ground that will allow moderates and conservatives to come...

Our first choice, Rudy Giuliani, did not win. He ran a campaign with a risky strategy and it didn't work. But our number two choice did win...John McCain. McCain came in second in a survey of our membership. While he is personally "pro life" he has time and again reached out and worked with people across the spectrum. We know we can work with him to create common ground that will allow moderates and conservatives to come together to rebuild the GOP. RFC joins with Rudy Giuliani in asking our supporters to consider McCain as they go to vote over...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some Republican Party backers of abortion rights are upset with their party's new chairman, Ken Mehlman, for planning to host a salute next week to those who favor banning abortion. "This crosses the line," Ann Stone, national chair of Republicans for Choice, a political action group with about 100,000 members nationwide, said on Friday. Mehlman has scheduled an event on Monday to honor those who participate in the march that day against the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. our party's fight to protect the sanctity of life."