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Some advice for John McCain?

NEW ORLEANS — John McCain got mixed reviews today from some of the conservative movement’s top donors and leaders after he addressed — then took questions from — members of the secretive Council for National Policy.

Secretive? Who are these people???

Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America said she asked him about the nearly 40 percent of women in America who bear children out of wedlock and how he would address that problem.

“His response was to say his pro-life record [in Congress] answered that,” Mrs. Crouse said. “Well, I’m proud of his pro-life record, but this is not a pro-life issue but of promoting marriage and the idea that children belong within marriage, so I was not happy with his response.”

She has a point…but I don’t necessarily agree with her.

“On the other hand, he will not find an electorate that is inspired, that will plant signs in their yards, that will mobilize their neighbors and do everything they can to get him elected. They will go to the polls, and that is about it,” she said.

That about sums up the spirit of so many who will back McCain…they will do so without any cheering.

Unless, she added, “he chooses a strong social conservative vice presidential candidate.” Because she represents a nonprofit organization, she could not mention anyone specifically to fill that bill.

However, she has been known to admire former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, both of whom also sought the Republican nomination this year.

AHHH! NO…not the Huckster, puLEEze. I could stand Fred, and his presence in this would ignite the fires of A LOT of people.

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