WHITTEN NEVADA
THE ISSUES
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 Sam Brownback
U.S. Senator
Kansas
51 years old
Sam Brownback was born in Parker, Kansas and raised on a farm where his mother and father still live. He served as a White House Fellow in the first Bush administration and was the youngest Secretary of Agriculture in Kansas history. When he was 38, he was elected to the House of Representatives with the Republican Revolution in 1994. In 1996, he was elected to the U.S. Senate seat held by Bob Dole.
WAR: After a recent trip to Iraq, Brownback says he is �even more convinced that the situation there is precarious, but hopeful.� He sees �hope in the Iraqi people� that �will be the foundation of a new Iraqi society.� Much remains to be done, and Brownback thinks we need a plan to turn Iraq over to its citizens. He will continue to work with the leaders in our country, as well as leaders in Iraq, to find a solution that protects the future of Iraq, and the pride and dignity of its citizens.
ISRAEL: Brownback believes �America must stand firmly alongside Israel in the fight against Islamic extremism. Every day, Israel is on the front lines of this war, facing enemies such as Hamas, Hezbollah and their patron states, Syria and Iran. As our only democratic ally in the Middle East, Israel serves as a beacon of freedom and hope in an otherwise troubled region.�
BORDER SECURITY: �Securing our borders must be our top priority as a nation. Our Southern border is porous and must be secured. Secure borders make Americans safer.�
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Rudy Giuliani
Former New York
City Mayor
63 years old
A grandson of Italian immigrants, Rudy Giuliani was born in 1944 to a working class family in Brooklyn, New York. After joining the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Rudy rose quickly through the ranks, becoming the Chief of the Narcotics Unit at age 29. After the inauguration of Ronald Reagan in 1981, Rudy was named Associate Attorney General, the third highest position in the Department of Justice. In 1993, Rudy became the first Republican elected Mayor of the City of New York in a generation.
WAR: Giuliani �prays for the success of our troops in Iraq and their safe return home. But he believes setting an artificial timetable for withdrawal from Iraq now would be a terrible mistake, because it would only embolden our enemies. Iraq is only one front in the larger war on terror, and failure there would lead to a broader and bloodier regional conflict in the near future.�
ABORTION: Giuliani �supports reasonable restrictions on abortion such as parental notification with a judicial bypass and a ban on partial birth abortion � except when the life of the mother is at stake.� Rudy understands that this is a deeply personal moral dilemma, and people of good conscience can disagree respectfully.
SECOND AMENDMENT: Giuliani claims to be a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. He understands that every law-abiding American has an individual right to keep and bear arms that is guaranteed by the Constitution.
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Mike Huckabee
Former Arkansas Governor
52 years old
Mike Huckabee was born in Hope, Arkansas, and graduated magna cum laude from Ouachita Baptist University, completing his bachelors degree in two years before attending Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to his political career, Huckabee was pastor of several Southern Baptist churches in Arkadelphia, Texarkana and Pine Bluff, Arkansas. From 1996-2007, Huckabee served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas.
WAR: Huckabee believes that �the surge is a military means to achieve the political end of sectarian reconciliation among the Iraqis. Setting a timetable for withdrawal is a mistake. This country has never declared war until �a week from Wednesday.� We have always declared war until victory.� He says he is �focused on winning. Withdrawal would have serious strategic consequences for us and horrific humanitarian consequences for the Iraqis.�
MARRIAGE: Huckabee supports and has �consistently supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.� As Governor of Arkansas, he �led the successful effort to pass a similar state constitutional amendment in 2002.�
ISRAEL: Huckabee says he is �a steadfast supporter of Israel, our staunch ally in the War on Terror, the only fully functioning democracy in the Middle East, and our greatest friend in that region.�
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Duncan Hunter
U.S. Representative
California
59 years old
A Vietnam veteran, Duncan Hunter served in the 173rd Airborne and 75th Army Rangers.
WAR: Hunter believes that �our success in protecting America from terrorists is completely dependent upon our ability to obtain and utilize reliable intelligence data. Our national intelligence and defense communities must be provided with the tools necessary to identify, track, stop and prosecute terrorists before they have the opportunity to strike.�
ABORTION: Hunter would amend the U.S. Constitution and provide blanket protection to all unborn children from the moment of conception by prohibiting any law that denies the personhood of the unborn.
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Alan Keyes
Former Assistant
Secretary of State
57 years old
Former Assistant Secretary of State Alan Keyes spent 11 years with the U.S. State Department.
WAR: ��We must defend ourselves against this threat, and we have no option and no choice.�
ABORTION: �The Declaration states plainly that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with our basic human rights. But if human beings can decide who is human and who is not, the doctrine of God-given rights is utterly corrupted.�
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John McCain
U.S. Senator
Arizona
71 years old
First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona in 1982, John McCain has led the fight for reforming Washington, eliminating wasteful government spending, and strengthening our nation�s armed forces. During his 23rd bombing mission in Vietnam on October 26, 1967, a missile struck his plane and forced him to eject, knocking him unconscious and breaking both his arms and his leg. He was then taken as a prisoner of war into the now infamous Hanoi Hilton, where he was denied necessary medical treatment and often beaten by the North Vietnamese.
WAR: McCain believes �that we must not fail in Iraq. Succeeding in the cause of helping the Iraqi people build a stable, secure, representative state is essential to achieving an enduring peace in a region of the world central to American prosperity and national security.�
BORDER SECURITY: McCain believes �that our border must be secure and that the federal government has utterly failed in its responsibility to ensure that it is secure. If we have learned anything from the recent immigration debate, it is that Americans have little trust that their government will honor a pledge to do the things necessary to make the border secure.�
ENVIRONMENT: McCain �has a proud record of common sense stewardship. Along with his commitment to clean air and water, and to conserving open space, he has been a leader on the issue of global warming with the courage to call the nation to action on an issue we can no longer afford to ignore.�
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Ron Paul
U.S. Representative
Texas
72 years old
Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine before serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies. He served in Congress during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1976, he was one of only four Republican congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan for president. Dr. Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent the 14th congressional district of Texas.
TAXES: Paul believes �lower taxes benefit all of us, creating jobs and allowing us to make more decisions for ourselves about our lives.�
WAR: �The war in Iraq was sold to us with false information. The area is more dangerous now than when we entered it. We destroyed a regime hated by our direct enemies, the
jihadists, and created thousands of new recruits for them. This war has cost more than 3,000 American lives, thousands of seriously wounded, and hundreds of billions of dollars. We must have new leadership in the White House to ensure this never happens again.�
HOME SCHOOLING: Paul will �advance tax credits through the Family Education Freedom Act, which reduces taxes to make it easier for parents to home school by allowing them to devote more of their own funds to their children�s education.�
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Mitt Romney
Former Massachusetts
Governor
60 years old
Mitt Romney received his B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1971. In 1975, he was awarded an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. From 1978 to 1984, Romney was a Vice President at Bain & Company, Inc., a leading management consulting firm. In 1984, Romney founded Bain Capital, one of the nation�s most successful venture capital and investment companies. Romney first gained national recognition, though, for his role in turning around the 2002 Winter Olympics. Elected in 2002, Governor Romney, without raising taxes or increasing debt, balanced the budget every year of his administration, closing a nearly $3-billion budget gap inherited when he took office.
WAR: Romney believes that �defeat of this radical and violent faction of Islam must be achieved through a combination of American resolve, international effort, and the rejection of violence by moderate, modern, mainstream Muslims. An effective strategy will involve both military and diplomatic actions to support modern Muslim nations. America must help lead a broad-based international coalition that promotes secular education, modern financial and economic policies, international trade, and human rights.�
ENERGY: Romney believes, �We must become independent from foreign sources of oil. This will mean a combination of efforts related to conservation and efficiency measures, developing alternative sources of energy.�
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Tom Tancredo
U.S. Representative
Colorado
61 years old
Tom Tancredo is a lifelong conservative with nearly a decade of experience in the U.S. Congress. There, he advanced his reputation as a pro-life, pro-gun, small-government Republican, and emerged as the leader in the national struggle for true immigration reform. Before his election to Congress, he served five years in the Colorado legislature, and was appointed regional representative for the Department of Education by President Reagan, a position he held for more than 10 years. Tancredo lives with his wife Jackie in Littleton, Colorado.
WAR: Tancredo believes that �America�s noble sacrifice has purchased Iraqis a precious opportunity for democratic change; it is now up to them to ensure success. Setting the President�s November benchmark for shifting control as an actual timetable for disengagement will let regional powers and Iraqi factions cooperate to forge a new balance of power.�
SECOND AMENDMENT: Tancredo supports �the right of the people to keep and bear arms. The failure of the ACLU to defend this right, and of federal courts to make the Second Amendment binding on the states, as they have made the First Amendment and most others, testifies to their intellectual hypocrisy.�
ABORTION: Tancredo believes that �the innocent unborn enjoy a God-given right to life. Roe is a scar on the moral and intellectual history of the country; but, contrary to popular belief, overturning it would merely permit and not require states to prohibit abortion.�
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Fred Thompson
Former U.S. Senator Tennessee
65 years old
Fred Thompson earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science from Memphis State University in 1964 and his law degree from Vanderbilt University in 1967. In 1969, Thompson was named an assistant United States attorney in Nashville, where he earned the reputation as a tough prosecutor. In 1973, he was off to Washington, where he served under the glaring spotlight of the Watergate scandal as minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee. Thompson has also enjoyed a longstanding film and television career. Recently, he has become known for his portrayal of New York District Attorney Arthur Branch on Law & Order. In 1994, he ran to fill the remaining two years of an unexpired Senate term and won. Two years later, in 1996, the people of Tennessee returned him to office with more votes than any candidate for any office in the state�s history.
WAR: Thompson believes that �a larger, more capable, and more modern military can defeat terrorists, deter adversaries, and defend the U.S. and our interests,� and �a missile defense system can protect the U.S. and our allies from long-range ballistic missiles.�
IMMIGRATION: Thompson believes that �the United States is a nation of immigrants. Throughout our history, legal immigrants have brought energy, ideas, strength and diversity to our country, our economy, and our culture. This must continue. But in the post-9/11 world, immigration is more of a national security issue.�
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