The Best and the Brightest: Looking ahead to 2008
Norquist, Grover
"The Best ant Brightest" BY GROVER NORQUIST ANDIDATES FOR THE Republican and Democratic nominations for the presidency in 2008 are wisely waiting to make formal announcements until after the...
...The skeptics and "experts" told me I didn't have a chance to win if I ran as a conservative, but I proved them wrong and I will again against Hillary...
...As the Mayor of Yonkers I know what it takes to win as a conservative in an area where there are more Democrats than Republicans...
...If you can send more than $51 — perhaps $100, $500, or even $1000 — every dollar will make a difference...
...And we would once again be faced with Clinton-style corruption...dragging America through one embarrassing scandal after another...
...They know she is not a "real New Yorker...
...Sincerely, Mayor John Spencer 0 YES John, you have my support...
...It only works once...
...Since sition to same-sex marriage may bridge the gap then McCain has changed many of his positions...
...THE REPUBLICAN FIELD, on the other hand, is wide open...
...Find out what the Washington Prowler has uncovered...
...At the "debates" Hillary will sit front and center, her chair four inches higher than the others, while Senator John Kerry, Senator Evan Bayh, Virginia Governor Mark Warner, and former senator John Edwards say things like "I was thinking this morning how much I agree with Hillary Clinton's thoughts on this issue and how I admire her leadership ability...
...As a strong advocate of our national security, I support 100% enforcement of our immigration laws and increasing our Border Security...
...When Frist leaves the Senate in November 2007 (he has limited himself to two resistance to voting for a Mormon for president six-year terms), he will be free to speak for himself stands unchanged at 17 percent...
...and your medical benefits and your right to see your own doctor would be in serious jeopardy...
...As governor beginning in 1998, Bush has cut government employment by 5 percent each and every year, cut taxes, enacted some school choice and tort reform, and passed the "Castle Act" allowing citizens to defend themselves against criminals without a legal obligation to turn and run in the face of attack...
...She's planning on raising millions of dollars for her Senate campaign and then rolling that war chest into a campaign for the Presidency...
...more quickly than McCain's campaign finance reform...
...Thank you and may God Bless America...
...2) We need to make sure she has to spend as much of her campaign war chest as possible on this race...
...What Dean did is plug into the Republican Party's efforts to end the filibuster as a national gay community...
...EAAT YORK h who rebounded OFFERS TWO possiblean candidates...
...See what daily insight from George Neumayr gets quoted by the who's who in Washington and talk radio...
...But McCain, or at least his advisers, know that he must choose...
...If I can just raise the funds needed to get my message out, I know I can expose her and defeat her...
...Bush has led the Republicans to crushing majorities of 26 to 14 in the Florida senate and 84 to 36 in the Florida house...
...A USA Today poll has shown that "For the first time, a majority of Americans say they are likely to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for President in 2008...
...I'm counting on you to sign your STOP HILLARY Campaign Pledge, and join my team to stop her before it's too late...
...But logic runs the other way...
...Chuck Hagel, the Republican senator from Nebraska, has staked out the political ground of "like George Bush, without the Iraq thing hanging around your neck...
...ment, bringing together Pentecostal and fundamentalist Protestants with Roman Catholics in ways McCain unimaginable as recently as 1960, when Martin HREE YEARS OUT, Arizona Senator John polls well, courtesy of high name ID and a fawnLuther King Sr...
...The seven dwarfs will kick each other under the table as they suck up to Hillary...
...Romney...
...It would be a dirty trick for someone in the establishment press to ask any of them the one question they dread, "So why would you be a better president than Hillary...
...This posture is not presidential...
...One great unknown for Romney is the role his Mormon faith will play...
...Fox News warn that Hillary Clinton would "handily defeat three of the top Republicans" who are likely to run against her for the Presidency...
...South Carolina's Governor Mark Sanford has carved out a national reputation for vetoing spending bills (unlike others in this new century) and pushing school choice and tax cuts...
...The camcandidacy due to Romney's support for pro-family paign finance "reform" plan that he promised would positions...
...I'm the proven conservative Republican running against Hillary...
...Believe me, if I can be elected Mayor in heavily-Democratic Yonkers...
...That's why I decided to take on Hillary and run the campaign of my life against her...
...This was very helpful to Michael Dukakis in 1988, Paul Tsongas in 1992, and John Kerry in 2004...
...Frist is further hampered at In 2000 while Governor Geore g 7 • present by his job description of Republican Leader...
...No other piece of pulted Vermont Governor Howard Dean to national legislation in history has failed more dramatically, prominence—an already existing national network...
...If Iraq is in the windshield instead of in the rear view mirror in 2008, Hagel may be standing on the high ground...
...And if someone doesn't run an effective campaign against her Senate re-election effort, she may be right...
...That is just one dollar for every percent of -the vote I will need to take down Hillary and end her Presidential ambitions...
...He has made himself an expert on the issue of healthcare and has kept his name and ideas in the limelight enough to be ready if lightning struck and a presidential bid became possible for him...
...Senate...
...I'm the only Republican who opposes Hillary on the issues that matter to New Yorkers...
...If you don't think you can afford $51, then take one more look at the picture of Hillary and decide if you think you can afford to have another Clinton in the White House...
...The day Hillary is standing with her hand on the Bible, taking the Oath of Office, may be closer than you think...
...But the "religious rather than be held responsible for the voting and right" has expanded through the right to life move- speech patterns of others...
...Romney would have the tool to stop conservative judges...
...If McCain had not stopped Frist support structures of the two men may be stronger from employing the "nuclear" or "constitutional" 20 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2005/JANUARY 2006 W. Bush was running a campaign based on issues and principle, McCain ran as Charles de Gaulle: vote for me and I will lead you...
...Her socialized medicine scheme would be quickly resurrected...
...Recent flights to the right—voting with the NRA to ban harassing lawsuits against gun manufacturers, not trying to tie his antigun amendments to reform, and talking loudly about spending restraint—may simply be efforts to make a presidential bid appear plausible to maintain his attractiveness to Good Morning America...
...4r-EWT GINGRICH, the former Speaker of the House and the man who led the Republicans out of the wilderness into the majority, has been visiting New Hampshire and Iowa...
...I can win a state-wide race against a far-left liberal like Hillary...
...Hillary Clinton wants nothing more than to become President of the United States...
...Still, Pataki has been a tax cutter and governed well in a large state that should be able to fund a serious presidential campaign...
...I look forward to receiving your STOP HILLARY Campaign Pledge today...
...4,200...
...The Democratic race is already scripted...
...Directed by Wlady www.spectator•org pick up a few improved GOP seats in the legislature, he could enact his plans to cut property taxes, establish spending limits for local government, and offer full school choice...
...Voter fraud in Philadelphia in November 2006 could cost Santorum a very real shot at the Republican nomination in 2008...
...Pataki suffers from the truth that he could only enact legislation in New York that passed between the Scylla and Charybdis of the New York State Assembly Leader Silver and the Senate President Bruno...
...Warner cannot run for president as an anti-taxconservative for the same reason that the Greeks did not conquer the rest of Asia Minor using the Trojan Horse ploy...
...And as a solid pro-life conservative, I will give the voters of New York a clear alternative to the failed liberal ideas touted by Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...Today, oppo- small liberal impulse—campaign finance reform...
...On the downside, many evangelical churches still circulate tracts attacking Mormonism, formally the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, as a cult...
...GROVER NORQUIST option, we would have had another Scalia on the bench by Thanksgiving...
...egular appearances by Jed Babbin Lawrence Henry Marina Malenic Enemy Central John Tabin David Hogberg Shawn Macomber and of course, RET...
...Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum looks very good on paper—Catholic, Big State, GOP Senate leadership—if he can get past the very serious challenge of getting re-elected in 2006...
...Virginia Senator George Allen stands most comfortably in the center of the Reagan coalition...
...Rudy Giuliani, affection in the wake of the September 11 attacks, and 12-year governor George Pataki...
...Some believe he should pass that year to avoid the appearance of a Bush Dynasty...
...Chuck Colson, the widely respected has championed slowing down the American economy evangelical leader who runs the Prison Fellowship to implement the Kyoto climate change treaty that movement, has said he would be open to a Romney was rejected by the Senate 95-0 in 2000...
...fighting crime, lowering taxes, stopping illegal immigration, and keeping America safe from terrorism...
...McCain, not Chief of same organizational advantage through the 6 million Staff Andrew Card, was the father of the Harriet Mormons spread across the 50 states...
...While Hillary may be popular among hardline Democrats...
...The Republican governor of Texas, Rick Perry, has successfully enacted tort reform—in the state constitution...
...He and Nevada...
...On guns, McCain has become the Marriage Act efforts in Hawaii, California, Arizona, most visible and vehement anti-gun Republican...
...AS12 in her 2006 Senate re-election campaign...
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...They resent her carpet-bagging, her grandstanding, and her using New York as a "stepping stone" to the Presidency...
...And while the Miers nomination...
...I'm relying on some generous Americans to send the maximum allowed...
...And it must be taken seriously by concerned conservatives like you and I. That's why I'm hoping and praying you'll send me your STOP HILLARY Campaign Pledge today...
...He stopped any tax hikes and dropped $10 billion from the biennial budget that he inherited from someone or other when he ascended from the lieutenant governorship in 2001...
...it may be Hillary Rodham Clinton who will be taking the Oath of Office for the Presidency in 2008...
...I'm convinced that I'm the only person who can run the campaign that is needed to defeat Hillary...
...Frist's job is to throw 55 marbles up in the air and then collect at least 51 of them in a bag...
...get big money out of politics instead gave us the era of Romney would also have an advantage that cata- George Soros and Michael Moore...
...And I will need gifts from conservatives across the country to win this race...
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...Such tricks only work once...
...They'll pretend to run for president while actually auditioning for vice president...
...And I don't want to see "President Hillary" gut our military budget and disrespect our military the way her husband did...
...New York Senator Hillary Clinton will be followed around the nation by six or seven emasculated senators...
...He is on good terms with taxpayers, pro-family activists, and gun owners...
...I know Hillary is ripe for defeat in 2006...
...This collapsed under questioning ("lead us where...
...Contributions are not tax-deductible for federal If you prefer to donate Like you, l can't stand the thought of Hillary Rodham Clinton income tax purposes...
...Some assume that McCain knows that he cannot run for the Republican nomination in 2008 as the anti-NRA, anti-tax cut, Christian-bashing senator who undermines Bush's ability to reform the judiciary...
...Giuliani...
...Only in 2008 will it be impossible for even the New York Times to argue with a straight face that we cannot elect one president's brother because we must elect another president's wife...
...But first she needs to win re-election to the Senate in 2006...
...Perhaps McCain is simply remaining true to his phototropic self...
...Campaigns in New York aren't run on a shoe-string budget...
...But I need your help to make this happen...
...Name: PO Box 857 $51* (That's one dollar for every percent of the Address: Yonkers, NY 10702-9968 vote you'll need to dethrone Hillary Clinton...
...Pataki...
...Virginia Governor Mark Warner typifies the challenges facing those Dems who would run as "conservative" counterweights to a Hillary at the top of the ticket...
...Kansas Senator Sam Brownback is positioning himself to be the John Ashcroft of 2008—the socially conservative candidate who could run as the needed vice-presidential antidote for a nominee with frayed ties to the religious right: McCain...
...Let there be no mistake...
...3) And we must destroy her Presidential aspirations by defeating her here and now...
...At present Bush is saying "No" to the idea of a 2008 presidential bid...
...And I'm the person to do it...
...Please send as much as possible to keep this from happening...
...His social liberalism on gay marriage and abortion has not hurt his ability to campaign and raise money for state and national candidates across America...
...Taxes would go through the roof...
...Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has the advantage of serving as governor in a state whose television footprint covers the population center of the first primary state, New Hampshire...
...So when you send me your STOP HILLARY Campaign Pledge, I hope you will give a highly-meaningful gift of $51 to help me beat Hillary Clinton...
...1/4 Grover Norquist is the president of Americans for Tax Reform...
...He can be CBS's favorite Republican senator or he can move back to the Reagan Republican positions he took before the Keating Five story broke in the late 1980s...
...Federal law requires us to report the name, address, occupation, and employer Spencer for Senate you that the best and surest way to stop her is to defeat her of all contributors whose contributions are in excess of $200 in a calendar year...
...The Katrina hurricane spotlighted Mississippi's Governor Haley Barbour, who already had a number of advocates convinced he would be a strong national candidate based on his years as party leader in the Republican National Committee and his network of party officials and donors...
...This threat is serious...
...Every day Dr...
...He is not moving either left or right, but towards the television cameras and the adoration of the Washington press corps, his true "base...
...I'm sure you haven't forgotten how bad Bill Clinton was as President...
...I hope you can spare $51 to help me defeat Hillary Clinton...
...He passed asbestos tort reform, a feat that has eluded Congress...
...Because if you don't take action by signing your attached STOP HILLARY Campaign Pledge today...
...1) We need to give her the fight of her life for her Senate seat...
...she figures she will be unstoppable...
...Should Perry win big in 2006 and DECEMBER 2005/JANUARY 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 21 THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST Every day...
...McCain ran in 2000 as otry—for Richard Nixon rather than John Kennedy, a Reagan Republican, a former Vietnam POW with one who had befriended his imprisoned son...
...public es...
...AND THEN THERE IS JEB BUSH, the man who would be president today if the Democrats hadn't stolen the Florida gubernatorial election in 1994...
...But it will take a life-long New Yorker, running on strong conservative values, to beat her...
...Corporate checks and contributions from foreign nationals are by check, please mail to: becoming President of the United States...
...As a Vietnam Veteran I know how important it is to have a strong national defense...
...How will it play in Republican primaries...
...And I'm sure you remember just how liberal Hillary was as his unofficial "Co-President...
...On January 1, 2004, the Washington Post reported While much of McCain's last five years appears that, "with just one exception, every fundraiser Dean to be simple spite and ankle-biting aimed at the man attended outside Vermont in 2002 was organized by who denied him the nomination in 2000, the most gay men and lesbians, as were more than half the damaging act by McCain was his decision to play the events in the first quarter of 2003...
...Seen from afar this activity is hardly dignified, what with Frist having to bend over to collect the Olympia Snowe marble rolling left and the John McCain marble rolling towards the CBS camera...
...Mark Warner lied his way into the governor's office in Virginia by promising not to raise taxes and then pushed through a $2 billion tax hike...
...In 2000, while Governor George W. Bush was running a campaign based on issues and principle, McCain ran as Charles de Gaulle: vote for me and I will lead you...
...Dean's campaign Pied Piper and lead seven Republican "moderates" was not driven by the Internet, which was available out of the caucus, and commit himself to oppose the to all candidates...
...Date WSA...
...TheBest ant Brightest BY GROVER NORQUIST ANDIDATES FOR THE Republican and Democratic nominations for the presidency in 2008 are wisely waiting to make formal announcements until after the November 2006 congressional elections, but the field is taking shape and some campaigns are already coming into focus...
...And 1 agree with prohibited...
...He was the welfare-reforming, tax-cutting, crime-fighting mayor who turned around a failing city...
...Neither was working to create a record for Pataki conducive to running for president as a Republican...
...she is vulnerable among the voters of New York State...
...He speaks Spanish as a second language and English as if it were his native tongue...
...And because I'm the only person willing to stand up to Hillary on the issues, I'm the only candidate who has a chance to stop her...
...He between Mormons and the Catholic/Protestant axis, voted against each of the significant Bush tax cuts...
...George W. Bush has, one hopes, started a trend by appointing a vice president with a health problem that precludes him from using the unearned perch at the Naval Observatory to step unchallenged into the White House...
...voted—for reasons of sectarian big- ing establishment press...
...But please know that any amount is appreciated in this fight...
...Dept...
...With her name ID and that money...
...Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has unsettled social conservatives with his decision to support Senator Hatch's position allowing experimentation on embryonic stem cells...
...which reminds me that Joe Biden is an idiot...
...Why $51...
...Massachusetts governors also find it easy to swamp New Hampshire with volunteers who can live at home and drive to the state, rather than fly across the country, speak with region18 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2005/JANUARY 2006 O DECEMBER 200S/JANUARY 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 19THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST al accents, and pay hotel bills...
...Card #: Signature: Exp...
...22 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 2005/JANUARY 2006 Take a good long look at the photo of Hillary being sworn in...
...by the time of the early South Carolina primary...
...Giuliani has the high name ID of September 11 and his Time Man of the Year award...
...He was a governor and has a Reaganite voting record with demonstrated leadership on high-tech issues...
...Polls show that while Americans' reticence to vote for a Jewish or black presidential candidate has collapsed over the last 40 years, similarrespectively in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, both Dean and Romney find potential supporters in all 50 states while their competitors have to pay good money to build efforts in Iowa and New Hampshire...
...But you and I both know how bad she would become once she was sworn in as THE President...
...given that the Mormon church has been a leading (True, in 2001 he voted for Bush's tax cut before he financial and political supporter of the Defense of voted against it...
...He oversaw the redistricting battle that brought Republicans an additional six seats in the House of Representatives...
...Barbour is a high IQ Southern gentleman whose laid-back style is never confused with laziness or simplemindedness...
...We must stop Hillary's Presidential plans before it is too late...
...And the time to begin fighting is NOW...
...And once I do, her dreams of becoming President will be over...
Vol. 38 • December 2005 • No. 10
