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As Brownback took the podium, he asked "one thing" of those attending: Do all they can to reelect President Bush. Though the president has not yet had the opportunity to appoint Supreme Court justices, it is likely that the next four years will bring at least two openings.

Between the opportunity to appoint a solidly conservative Supreme Court and the battle over banning same-sex marriage, there is no shortage of urgency among the right wing of the Republican Party.

Ann Coulter, however, says social conservatives are not to the right of the rest of the GOP.

"There is no division. This is a pro-life party," the conservative author and television personality says.

"If Giuliani wants to have a national ambition, and I'm a big fan of his, he's going to have to become pro-life if he wants to run for president. No one ever believed he was pro-choice anyway - he's a Catholic from Queens," she says, adding, "Americans understand that Manhattan is the Soviet Union."

In a purple dress and black high heels, Coulter was willing to break ranks with the president on some issues.

"I don't like the amnesty for illegal [aliens]... the largest entitlement program in 50 years is the prescription drug program… campaign finance reform," she says. "But what are you going to do," she says, throwing up her arms, "vote for the Treason Party?"

President Bush "is not our ideal," she says, but adds that "no human can be the ideal unless he's Jesus Christ." And, for Coulter, "Reagan was as close to Jesus Christ as we got."

She then autographs a pamphlet and explains that this Republican Party is the party of Reagan and Bush, not Schwarzenegger. "We are going to be banning gay marriage before we allow foreigners to be president."

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