Our Letter to McCain
As I mentioned last weekend on our show, I was one of about two dozen conservative leaders nationwide, including the chairman of the Free Congress Foundation and Founder of the Heritage Foundation and Moral Majority, Paul Weyrich, who signed a letter to John McCain regarding his VP selection that appeared today as a full page ad in the local Prescott Arizona news paper in the city where McCain campaigned and spoke.
Incidentally, Mr. Weyrich has recently stated at the Council of National Policy meeting in New Orleans that endorsing Romney was the “biggest mistake of his life.” He has stated that he was unaware of Romney’s true record and role in establishing abortion with a $50 co pay as a “healthcare benefit” (after his supposed pro-life conversion) and illegally instituting same sex “marriage” in Massachusetts (which by the way remains illegal as the current marriage statute Chapter 207 has never been amended to include marriage between same sex “couples.” A bill before the legislature to do just that was just voted down last week.)
Our letter has been a major topic nationally and has been covered on CNN, Fox News Channel, CNS News, CBN, CNBC, Townhall, and World Net Daily among others.
So far the only responses hve been to call us “bible thumpers,” “jealous Huckabee supporters,” and “anti-Mormon haters.” Pretty much the same banal responses to the multitude of articles I have written on Townhall.com critical of former governor Romney. There has been no attempt to even refute any of the substantive evidence from the actual letter… just name calling. No surprise.
Here’s the WorldNetDaily piece on the letter:
‘No Mitt’ campaign targets VP slot
‘We can’t support a McCain-Romney ticket,” coalition saysSen. John McCain needs to choose someone other than former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as his vice-presidential candidate, says a coalition that has accused Romney of violating the state constitution and mocking the principle of limited government while governor.
The message is being proclaimed in new full-page newspaper advertisements that will begin running in locations where McCain will be campaigning, starting this weekend in Prescott, Ariz., according to the sponsors.
“With Mitt Romney on the ticket there could very well be enough social conservatives staying at home to allow a Barack Obama victory in the fall,” said a statement from sponsor Government is Not God-PAC, run by William Murray.
Readers are being directed to a NoMittVP website, where they can express their opinions about Romney as a possible vice president.
Among the signatures on the ad is Paul Weyrich, founder of the Heritage Foundation and a supporter of Romney as little as a few months ago.
However, revelations about Romney’s actions as Massachusetts government have terrified some conservatives about what he might do as president.
“Picking a running mate as dishonest, cynical and with so little regard for innocent human life, natural marriage and the binding force of constitutions as Mitt Romney would be a deal breaker for many, many voters,” said John Haskins, who signed as an individual but works with the ParentsRightsCoalition and UndergroundJournal.net.
“Mitt Romney is the Barak Obama of the Republican Party,” he said.
The advertisement is listed as “An open letter to John McCain: NO Mitt.”
“We are conservatives who believe strongly in the sanctity of human life and of marriage and we recognize that the issues at stake in this upcoming election are serious and profound. Indeed, we believe the very future of America’s security, against threats both foreign and domestic, will be determined by whom America elects as president in November,” the ad says. “Because we have invested our lives in securing a prosperous America that honors life and liberty, we must state our grave concerns regarding your pending choice of a running mate.
And here is the full page ad
April 6th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Gregg,
Thank you for being one of a handful of national pacesetters who are unafraid to stand up for life and liberty in a culture whose ignorance of the truth is by choice.
Living in freedom requires work, i.e., personal responsibility to do what’s right, to search for the truth and then act on truth, to live each day with a sense of purpose and concern for one’s neighbor above oneself.
More of us need to follow the example that you and the others have set. You not only believe in freedom. You show what it means to LIVE in the home of the free and the BRAVE.
April 6th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Mr. Jackson, I want to encourage you to consider writing a major-publisher book about Romney. Ideally, shoot for a mid-to-late 2011 release date. Your columns and articles have an urgent, alarmist quality to them. This is probably because Romney was close to getting on the GOP ticket. If Huckabee had not run, I think it is likely that Romney would be the nominee by now.
If Romney does run in 2012, I encourage you to prepare a less urgent, less alarmist book that reviews carefully and calmly the case against Romney. In your book, make sure never to mention his church affiliation in any way. Because, if you do, you’ll be easy to dismiss as anti-Mormon, despite the fact that almost all of your criticism of him has been unrelated to that. And make sure to refute honestly any problems with Hugh Hewitt’s writings, Romney’s own book, and any other pro-Romney material published. Please continue to study him in the next 8 years and compile proper citations for everything you have to say about Romney. All candidates should be scrutinized carefully, I think you are probably as qualified as anybody to write a proper and factually solid ‘vetting’.
April 6th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
In a blog entry I wrote, in paragraphs 3 and 4 of section #2, I discussed an anti-Romney argument that I don’t think your work has discussed much.
Here’s the link:
http://churchofpotter.blogspot.com/2008/03/dsouzas-ten-truths-about-election.html
The blog entry is a response to the Dinesh D’Souza article linked at the top. D’Souza is a brilliant conservative who influenced my own political views a lot. His article last week is one of the few I’ve seen, by a conservative pundit, that argues a Romney nomination would have been disastrous.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Great article. The only about it though, I’m afraid it is true. If everyone who believes such as you and I do decides to stay home, the rest of the ticket will suffer. McCain has done enough damage to the repukian party. We cannot allow him to poison the Senate and the House.
We must elect our own CONSERVATIVES. Which reminds me, vote for Duncan D. Hunter! Duncan’s son who has returned from Iraq.
Keep up the great work. If you need any help, you know how to reach me.
April 7th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I’d be interested to know how many GOP supporters would support a ticket with C. Rice on it. Personally I would strongly support her. She called herself “mildly pro-choice” in an interview 8 years ago. But, if you read all her comments, she was further from the standard Democrat pro-choice position than McCain and Romney have been in the past. The stuff she supported in that same interview would require an overturning of Roe vs. Wade to be implemented.
April 8th, 2008 at 5:02 am
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