WB: Gary Bauer

Gary Bauer said the media has been for several weeks writing the obituary of the values voters, but he said the fight has only begun and they haven't seen anything yet.

Bauer said the country is facing a grave danger, and everything is up for grabs. He said while we meet here, there are evil men around the world working to bring sorrows to us in the United States. He said it won't matter whether we're still in Iraq or not when the new president comes in, he will be a wartime president because we will still be fighting these evil men.

Bauer said our schools are too busy teaching our children that religion has no place in the public square to tell them about the self-evident truths of our founding documents. He said the right to "life" was included in the Declaration of Independence because the Founders realized that without this right, the rest don't mean much.

Bauer said while President Bush is a good man and he's glad he has been at the helm during these difficult years, the president made a mistake when he said that all the faiths of the world are praying to the same God. He said he did not believe the god of the same people who hate Jews and destroy life is the same God who encouraged his people to "choose life."

He said he is "disgusted and sickened" by many of the Leftists and Leftist groups that have denounced our heroic troops, and he called on Democrat legislators to disavow MoveOn.org and groups like them that say terrible things about our military members. He said anyone who wouldn't condemn this behavior didn't deserve to serve in elected office. (standing ovation)

Bauer said our nation made a mistake when the Supreme Court said in the Dred Scott decision that people were property, that Dred Scott was not a "person" under the Constitution. He said that decision released a poison in our civilization that nearly destroyed the Union, and it still keeps people of different skin colors apart.

He said the court made the same mistake again in 1973 when it decided children were property, like "styrofoam cups." We have had 35 years of destruction of innocent children. We have elevated the destruction of children to a lofty Constitutional right. Bauer asked about the wisdom of saying slavery was a choice.

Bauer said there are disagreements about candidates and strategy, but it doesn't mean we're enemies or that we're falling apart. There has been talk of a third party, and he said that while some might be okay with that, he felt this was not the way to go. He said he wasn't going to turn over the party of Lincoln and Reagan over to those that don't deserve the legacy.

He said we want an America where Roe v. Wade has been discarded to the trashcan of history where it belongs.

Bauer said there is a great reservoir of people who believe in faith and family, and we saw them on 911. He said that on that day we didn't care about political party or skin color, we just helped each other and prayed together.

He paid homage to the heroes of Flight 93 who brought down the hijacked plane over Pennsylvania. He said these hereos planned, then they voted. They voted to fight back. They decided to meet the enemy head on, and spared the rest of us an additional horror like we saw too much of that morning.

He called on values voters to come out and win with love, and keep America the shining city on a hill.