[Keyes2000mt]

Lets go to the Weekly Standard earlier this year: Much of the current debate about Rice's VP chances in 2004 revolves around her position on abortion and whether it will be palatable to conservatives. Rice has been pretty coy on the subject. And who can blame her? She's not a politician (yet)--she's a foreign policy wonk, for heaven's sake. In 1999, after stepping down as provost at Stanford to work for Bush's campaign, she told the San Francisco Chronicle that despite her devout Presbyterian background, she is a "pro-choice evangelical," and that "there's a lot of room in the middle [on abortion]. . . . I don't think Americans think abortion is something you do lightly." Later that year, she told National Review's Jay Nordlinger that she is "mildly pro-choice," and more generally, an "all-over-the-map Republican" whose views are "hard to typecast." We're not just hallucinating this.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Thanks for the reference. Still, it makes little difference. As long as she can deliver on electability, she's a fair choice. The bulk of her conservative credentials are still light years beyond Hillary's. If it comes down to it, who would you vote for?

[weegee]

Again, if the RIGHT to life gets settled as a constitutional matter (in the Supreme Court) it would trump "privacy" and the issue of "pro-choice" becomes moot.

Did anyone think that sodomy would become a constitutional right by 2003 especially in the midst of a domestic war?

If you still think that the Supreme Court only ruled on "equal protection" why can't states outlaw sodomy for BOTH sexes? If you think that they approved sex acts between consenting adults in private why is incest and prostitution still illegal? Why is sodomy now legal for minors (over the age of consent, within the Romeo & Romeo exception age, or even both participants underage), so much for consenting ADULTS. Does the government have a say in the financial transaction that occurs when you hire a baby sitter? Is "extramarital fornication" still a crime?

SODOMY was made a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT whether we want to accept the judicial tyranny or not.