Posted on 02/13/2006 3:08:27 PM PST by presidio9
See post 40
I also think people should accept Rice's statement that she isn't going to run instead of championing a RINO. All this talk of Rice, McCain, and Giuliani is starting to worry me.
You're missing the point. Abortion obviously can't be a campaign issue for either woman, but the press will make sure that everybody knows Dr. Rice is pro abortion. That will be enough to turn off the 1-2% of voters needed to give the Democrats the election. Incidently, Senator Clinton is not "pro-life." She has the same outlook as rice ("safe, legal & rare"). Think any liberals are going to defect to Rice over that one?
BTW, I would also vote for Giuliani (who is pro-abortion, pro gay marriage, and pro gun control) if he is nominated. And he will also lose.
Nope, post 40 has nothing to do with the election itself. What point are you trying to make?
I'm like Ben Stein, can't vote pro-abortion.
And .. President Bush has never had Osama presented to him on a silver platter .. but Bill Clinton did. Monsoor Ijaz brokered 2 of those deals - and still Bill Clinton let him go.
Hillary doesn't think we know this - or that we've forgotten. Which proves once again that the "smartest woman in the world" - is not so smart after all.
The problem is that with Roe, it doesn't much matter whether the President signs or vetoes an abortion bill. They are all unconstitutional anyway. If Roe gets thrown out, then maybe the President's viewpoint will be of interest, but more likely, they will expect the State legislatures to do something.
Only if the single issue crowd takes their football and goes home on election day.
Which we are eminently capabile of doing. My suggestion...be liberal on some other issue.
Well, unless it's Guiliani or McCain, it looks like Hillary's got it made. I'm not sure why those guys are any better from the conservative perspective than Rice.
Pres-I get the "what" but not the "why." Seriously, I am missing why you think this. Maybe I haven't read enough of the thread yet.
Exactly. It's hard to believe people call themselves pro-life and support a woman who doesn't care than thousands of children are murdered every day, when we've got plenty of candidates to beat Scarlett. A recent poll even had about half the population saying they would definitely not vote for her.
Me too. An campaign against Hillary Clinton is one of the few scenarios where all of Newt's baggage goes out the window. He should run now, because this is the one he can win.
I agree with the two of you on this!
Her Heinous is asking for trouble for ridiculing Bush for not nabbing OBL yet; after all, it was she and the bent one during their co-presidency who were offered OBL on a silver platter. Her asinine remarks make me think she's got the beginnings of dementia.
Just like Castro. Should have drafted him.
I vote on the issues that are important to me and that means that whatever candidate comes closest to my ideal candidate gets my vote.
The people who like the issues of higher taxes and more government control over our lives may or may not be out in force on election day. Whoever wins, wins.
Even St. President Bush is "pro-life" but what has he proposed 5 years in office to end abortion as we know it besides outlawing partial-birth abortions? Even many "pro-choice" democRats oppose PBA's. President Bush has ducked the issue entirely except with his nominees to the Supreme Court. I would expect Dr. Rice to do the same.
Abortion is a dead issue in campaigns. Changes will occur only through the SCOTUS and the states. Pro-lifers (and I include myself as one) are wasting time and votes using a pro-life stance as a litmus test for voting for candidates- especially when we refer to a pro-choice Republican as "pro-abortion".
No one is as sorry as I am that this is the case, but this is reality.
There would be no fight. Dr. Rice is the original item. The hildebeest is a fraud. 'Nuff said.
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