| OnTheIssues.org excerpts: (click on issues for details)
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Abortion
Orrin Hatch: Abortions cause a societal insensitivity to life.
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Education
Alan Keyes: Violence in schools due to loss of moral heritage.
Gary Bauer: Present both evolution & creationism and let students decide.
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Energy & Oil
Mitt Romney: No-regrets policy: energy independence and CO2 reduction.
Orrin Hatch: Revoke Kyoto Accords as environmental extremism.
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Families & Children
Alan Keyes: Shape our children’s consciences in the fear of God.
Gary Bauer: Columbine resulted from our undermining the sanctity of life.
John McCain: Unfiltered Internet robs our children of their innocence.
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Foreign Policy
Gary Bauer: Stop allowing China to play us for suckers.
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Free Trade
Alan Keyes: WTO allows dictators to decide our future - US out.
Gary Bauer: Europeans fight to protect their farmers; so should we.
George W. Bush: China in WTO is good for US farm exports.
Steve Forbes: Do free trade ourselves, without WTO.
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Gun Control
Gary Bauer: Churches should discuss souls, not gun resolutions.
Gary Bauer: Promoting virtue would work better than passing gun laws.
George W. Bush: Best gun control is more prosecution & certain jail.
Steve Forbes: Prosecute crimes done with guns; not buying guns.
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Health Care
Alan Keyes: Focus on cost-reductions, not methods of payment.
Alan Keyes: Let market determine health payments, not bureaucrats.
George W. Bush: Keep Medicare in government, but provide flexibility.
George W. Bush: Create Review Board to hear HMO complaints.
John McCain: Matching funds for seniors citizens’ prescription drugs.
John McCain: Expand health insurance to 11 million uninsured children.
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Homeland Security
John Edwards: Reduce $9B spending on missile defense.
John McCain: Women have proven themselves in combat-no restrictions.
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Jobs
Alan Keyes: Family farms are nursery of moral character.
John McCain: Ethanol is not worth it, even in Iowa.
Orrin Hatch: Assist farmers in transition to free market.
Steve Forbes: Ethanol should be self-sufficient by 2007.
Steve Forbes: Raise wages by allowing growth, not by fiat.
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Principles & Values
Orrin Hatch: President should set a moral example.
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