4. You’re accused of being weak on national security and your statement that we have “an arrogant foreign policy” is troubling. We need to hear more clearly why you think that is. Why do you want to close Guantanamo? Do you really want to give “enemy combatants” full access to our court system? This too, is troubling. In spite of this, it sounds like you “get” the global war against radical Islam. Please convince us you’ve got what it takes to go toe to toe with Osama, Ahmadinejad, Kim Jung-il, Putin, Chavez and China.
5. Your position on illegal immigration is confusing. On the one hand, you’ve got the strongest immigration platform of all the candidates and you want to pardon border agents Ramos and Compean as your first presidential act. We all love this. But, on the other hand, you gave children of illegals in-state tuition breaks in Arkansas. Please explain this apparent inconsistency.
6. You have said that you want a national ban on smoking. This offends even the vast majority of non-smoking conservatives because it violates the principle of federalism. How serious are you about this?
7. We understand the need to talk about the environment and global warming for electoral purposes. How serious are you about governmental involvement in this, too?
Finally, governor, we’re with you on the big issues of life, marriage, family and faith. We know that these moral issues are essential for holding the conservative coalition together. Yet less than half of all Christians in this country are even registered to vote. In order to motivate the traditional values community to get our friends and family registered and voting for you, please tell them the truth: Putting Hillary or Obama in the White House will mean a generation of pro-abortion justices on the Supreme Court, the likelihood of same-sex marriage in every state, pro-gay curriculum in every public school, and a decisive victory for ACLU-fueled militant secularism against the last remnants of our once Judeo-Christian culture.
Like I said, you’ve won our hearts. Now, answer these questions and win our minds, and thereby our votes and the election.
Frank Pastore
The Frank Pastore Show is heard in Los Angeles weekday afternoons on 99.5 KKLA and on the web at
kkla.com, and is the winner of the 2006 National Religious Broadcasters Talk Show of the Year. Frank is a former major league pitcher with graduate degrees in both philosophy of religion and political philosophy.
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