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Subject: Info from a friend . . . I do no endorse any candidate...


>
> DATE: February 18, 2000
> FROM: Jerry Falwell
>
> MORE ON THE BAUER-McCAIN FIASCO: Yesterday, in my regularly-
> scheduled Falwell Confidential, I presented my reasons for differing
> with Gary Bauer, who has now backed the presidential candidacy of
> Arizona Sen. John McCain.  While I cannot legally endorse a
> candidate on behalf of my ministries, I personally endorsed George
> W. Bush months ago.  I truly believe he is a man of honor, integrity
> and leadership skills.  He knows Christ and he lives his faith every
> day.  I admire him and believe he will be a great president, if God
> allows him to be elected.  With that said, I was terribly
> disappointed that Gary Bauer chose to support John McCain, whose
> policies dramatically counter those that Bauer espoused during his
> own presidential campaign.  Bauer's endorsement of McCain is
> terribly alarming.  In addition, Dr. James Dobson, president of
> Focus on the Family - and Bauer's former boss - has now publicly
> stated his misgivings regarding Bauer's startling backing of John
> McCain.  Following is Focus on the Family's entire press release
> regarding the Bauer announcement:
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 17, 2000
>
> Colorado Springs - Speaking as a private individual and not as the
> president of Focus on the Family, Dr. James Dobson expressed
> disagreement yesterday with former presidential candidate Gary
> Bauer's endorsement of Senator John McCain as Republican nominee for
> U.S. President. The Senator has offered no assurances that he
> intends to appoint a pro-life running mate or pro-life justices to
> the U.S. Supreme Court. Indeed, he voted for pro-abortion Stephen
> Breyer and pro-abortion ACLU activist Ruth Bader Ginsburg for that
> Court and for David Satcher for Surgeon General, who supports
> partial-birth-abortion. McCain also voted in support of President
> Clinton to expand fetal-tissue research.
>
> Furthermore, McCain has accepted huge contributions from the
> gambling industry and apparently is comfortable with the
> proliferation of gambling in American society. He has also accepted
> large contributions from producers of alcohol.  McCain is in favor
> of combat assignments for women in the military, and has sought and
> received enormous financial and political support from the Log Cabin
> Republicans and other homosexual activists.  McCain also supports
> Most Favored Nation status for the brutal regime in China, and voted
> against our nation's monitoring of Communist Chinese commercial
> fronts operating the United States. He seeks to appease the bloated
> Federal public-school bureaucracy and has refused to support
> vouchers.
>
> "The Senator," Dobson said, "is being touted by the media as a man
> of principle, yet he was involved with other women while married to
> his first wife, and was implicated in the so-called Keating scandal
> with four other senators.  He was eventually reprimanded by the
> Congress for the 'appearance of impropriety.' The Senator reportedly
> has a violent temper, and can be extremely confrontational and
> profane when angry. These red flags about Senator McCain's character
> are reminiscent of the man who now occupies the White House.
>
> Gary Bauer's endorsement of the Senator is troubling for another
> reason. When Clarence Thomas was being considered for Justice of the
> U.S. Supreme Court, Mr. Bauer actively championed his candidacy.
> However, Warren Rudman, who is John McCain's National Campaign
> Chairman and his most likely choice for U.S. Attorney General, was a
> pro-abortion Senator who opposed confirmation of Clarence Thomas,
> despite the fact that he voted for him in order to get three federal
> judgeships approved. He said about the Thomas decision, "It's a vote
> I'm not proud of'."
>
> Given these concerns about McCain, it is difficult to understand how
> Gary Bauer can support him "with great pride and with absolutely no
> reservation."  This statement is not intended to imply Dr. Dobson's
> endorsement of anyone else's candidacy for the presidency - simply
> to clarify his lack of support for Senator McCain.
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
> I am also reprinting a February 18 chart, published by the
> conservative newspaper Human Events, that illustrates why John
> McCain is stretching the truth in calling himself a conservative in
> the mold of Ronald Reagan.  I hope this chart serves as a strong
> information tool for my fellow pastors and other concerned people of
> faith who are seeking information regarding McCain's voting record.
>
> WHY LIBERALS LOVE McCAIN (Published by Human Events)
>
> WRONG ON FETAL TISSUE
>
> * Voted for HR 2507, April 2, 1992, which would have overturned
> President Bush's moratorium on federal funding of human fetal-tissue
> transplantation research.  (Bush vetoed the bill.)
>
> * Voted for S 1, Feb. 18, 1993, providing federal funding of human
> fetal-tissue transplantation research.
>
> * Voted against an amendment by Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) to S 1061,
> Sept. 4, 1997, that would have denied federal funding to Parkinson's
> Disease research that uses brain tissue removed from aborted babies.
>
> WRONG ON JUSTICES
>
> * Voted to confirm liberal, pro-abortion ACLU activist Ruth Bader
> Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, Aug. 3, 1993.
>
> * Voted to confirm liberal, pro-abortion former Ted Kennedy aide
> Stephen Breyer to the Supreme Court, July 29, 1994.
>
> WRONG ON SATCHER
>
> * Voted to confirm liberal, pro-partial-birth-abortion Surgeon
> General nominee David Satcher, and then voted to confirm him, Feb. 10,
> 1998.
>
> WRONG ON KOSOVO
>
> * Voted against a successful tabling motion offered by Majority
> Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) that killed a McCain resolution (SJ Res
> 20) that would have authorized President Clinton to "use all
> necessary force and other means" in Yugoslavia, May 4, 1999.
>
> WRONG ON HEALTH CARE
>
> * Voted for an amendment by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) to S 1344
> that would have further socialized medicine under the Orwellian
> rubric of a Patient's Bill of Rights, July 14, 1999.
>
> WRONG ON TOBACCO
>
> * Voted to kill an amendment to S 1415 offered by Sen. John Ashcroft
> (R-Mo.) that would have stripped tax increases from the tobacco
> bill, May 20, 1998.
>
> WRONG ON TAXES
>
> * Voted to force a vote on an amendment requiring tobacco consumers
> to pay $516 billion in taxes, June 17, 1998.  The motion to force
> the vote failed.
>
> WRONG ON SPENDING
>
> * Voted against an amendment to S 1650 that would have triggered an
> across-the-board spending cut in case of a deficit, Oct. 6, 1999.
>
> WRONG ON FREE SPEECH
>
> * Voted to force a vote on the McCain-Feingold campaign finance
> reform bill that would have denied private organizations the right
> to express their views on political candidates and issues during an
> election period, Feb. 25, 1998.
>
> * Voted to force a vote on the similar Shays-Meehan campaign finance
> bill, Oct. 19, 1999.
>
> WRONG ON CHINA
>
> *  Voted to kill an amendment by Sen. Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.) to S
> 2057 that would have required government monitoring of Communist
> Chinese commercial fronts operating in the U. S., May 14, 1998.
>
> WRONG ON SOVEREIGNTY
>
> * Voted to approve the establishment of the World Trade
> Organization, Dec. 1, 1994.
>
> * Voted for a motion to kill an amendment by Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.)
> that would have imposed lending restrictions on the International
> Monetary Fund, Sept. 2, 1998.
>
> WRONG ON QUOTAS
>
> * Voted for the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which promoted racial
> quotas in private-sector employment, Oct. 31, 1991.
>