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They’ve laid out what McCain has to do to convince republicans he’s serious about motivating all conservatives on everything from life to judges, taxes, free speech, marriage, immigration, and energy.

To: The Honorable John McCain
From:Common Sense Conservative American Citizens Wanting to Trust You

Subject: Convincing Conservatives to Work for Your Election in the Fall

Dear Senator McCain:

Thank you for your honorable and sacrificial service to our country in defense of our liberty. We are deeply grateful.

During your 2008 campaign you have said you would lead our great Nation as a conservative in the mold of President Ronald Reagan. You must know we have deep concerns over that claim.

A litany of your actions opposing core conservative principles and your various alliances with those diametrically opposed to social conservatism give us pause.

Should you become the Republican nominee, many of us will likely vote for you because the liberal alternatives are completely untrustworthy on the issues we value. As for now, many of us continue supporting Governor Mike Huckabee because we remain unconvinced of your commitment to core conservative principles. If you are the eventual nominee, to win you need to be concerned not only with getting all of us to vote for you in the Fall, but also with how much heart we will dedicate to working FOR your election. We faced a similar choice in 1996 when the motivation to vote against the liberal alternative was not enough to make us walk that extra precinct or make that extra phone call for a candidate who didn’t inspire us. You must convince us.

We ask you to please encourage us to work FOR your election by letting your actions convince us we can trust you on the issues important to “Common Sense Conservatives.” To that end we have drafted the following Eight “Common Sense Conservative Assurances” - eight opportunities for you to demonstrate you hear and understand our concerns and are willing to govern more from a position of conservative principle than a particular personal ideology. If you are unwilling to demonstrate such assurance in the middle of an election to secure and consolidate your hard working base, we would be naive to believe you would somehow do so if elected President. Thus we stand on these issues and ask for your assurance on:

1. Life Assurance: Pledge to support and sign a Human Life Amendment that protects all human life.
2. Judicial Assurance: Pledge as President that you would re-nominate the conservative judges your actions sacrificed.
3. Taxes Assurance: Words are not enough, SIGN the No New Taxes pledge now.
4. Immigration Assurance: Pledge to close and secure the border and to enforce immigration law.
5. Free Speech Assurance: Support legislative changes to McCain-Feingold to protect citizens’ free speech, political associations, and activities.
6. Marriage Assurance: We ask for your pledge to support a Federal Marriage Amendment.
7. Security, Energy and Environment Assurance: Pledge first to open ANWAR to energy exploration and build more refineries in a way that shows proper respect for our environment, and then promise to veto any attempts by Congress to cap CO2 or bind us to international law.
8. Respect for Conservatives Assurance: Pledge to dignify the Reagan legacy by respecting ALL conservatives and should you become the Republican nominee publicly offer to make Governor Mike Huckabee your running mate.

Life – Life is a foundational issue from which all other issues of governance emanate. We thank you for your votes to respect and defend Life. However, there are two points on which we need greater assurance.

First, your recent vote to fund research on human embryos undermined our confidence in your commitment to always promote Life. However, on embryo research you have an easy out. Since the time of your vote, in addition to the numerous cures now developed from adult stem cells, scientists have shown a way to advance research to heal without killing embryos. Science has given you a clear and obvious reason to change your mind. We ask you to state, knowing what you now know, that President Bush was right to veto embryo research and you would not support any such research going forward.

Secondly, your stated opposition to a Human Life Amendment protecting the vulnerable in our society – whether young, challenged, or old – leads us to believe your support of Life is conditional on political expediency.

On a Human Life Amendment, while states’ rights are an important foundational concept to ordered liberty, we need assurance that your commitment to safeguarding human life supercedes any political considerations, even those involved in states rights.

Complete item is here.

We send this letter to you as an olive branch, in the spirit of goodwill. Should you become the Republican nominee, we will work tirelessly for you if you convince us that you share, value and respect our conservative principles. We anxiously await your response.

Will you convince us?

Signed by Common Sense Conservatives across America:

More than 200,000 common sense conservatives have already told Common Sense Issues they are concerned about Senator McCain’s Common Sense Conservative credentials

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