Posted on 01/30/2007 2:06:16 PM PST by YCTHouston
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the largest Republican vote-getter in the 2006 congressional elections and the most popular Republican in Texas, said yesterday she would consider an offer to run for vice president next year. "If our party's nominee called me and said we are putting everything in the grid, and we think you are the best person, would I say no? I can't imagine that I would say no," she said. "Would I seek it or do something to promote it? Absolutely not," she told editors and reporters of The Washington Times at a meeting at the newspaper.
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She did not dispute, however, that she is widely discussed for top offices, including the vice presidency, in part because she is the most conservative and longest-tenured female Republican senator.
An opponent of partial-birth abortion and proponent of parental notification, she has a zero rating from the pro-choice NARAL and a 90 percent rating from the anti-tax Americans for Tax Reform. Her American Conservative Union 91 percent lifetime voting record puts her ahead of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Utah Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, with 90 each. Mrs. Hutchison, the lead sponsor of a bill in 2005 to repeal the gun-ownership ban in the nation's capital, said she would reintroduce the legislation this year.
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Which will really mean "guest worker program", which really means "amnesty"...
ITs not that I have anything personal against her...She has done rather well during her time up there in D.C., she like every other elected official we have sent up there has their moments that sends a few of us into a froth...
But that politics...
She does tend to recover better than most when those things happen...
I thought you like the way I thought???
...sad...snif...pout...
Ideology. She is a big government politician who is not all that well thought of by Texas conservatives. She gets reelected due to inertia. Given her safe seat, she has done very little of note in her senatorial career.
She voted against McCain-Feingold, but whatever. Never let the facts get in the way of an opinion.
I think she actually has a stronger position on border security than our President or Governor, but that may be faint praise.
If only she'd see the light on life.
I've written her, visited her office in Washington, met with her staff and even confronted her at public appearances. She does not and will not stand for the right of all innocent human beings to not be killed. Evidently, only those human beings who can hire lobbyists are deserving of protection.
She also repeatedly ignored my invitations to events surrounding the National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women, when I was a member. (The letters in reply from her office are always canned, pre-written responses that show me that no one really read them - most had my name wrong.) (I typed or called - it wasn't my handwriting.)
She cannot flaunt the Platform of the Republican Party by advocating for abortion, cloning, and expanded (and ever expanding) destructive embryonic stem cell research and continue to be "the most popular Texas Republican." Instead, she'll just end up being another Democrat with and (R) behind her name. In other words, a RINO.
Fantastic comparisons!!!
Love it!
Her position (regardless of how strong it is) is definitely going against the political grain...
Of the administration, and both parties...
One point at a time...
1. She has two flaws on her Pro-Life voting record: 1. Embryonic stem cell testing, and 2. Endorsement of Roe v. Wade. If you know me, you know I don't support either of those positions. On substantive abortion votes, such as Partial-birth, fetal pain, tissue harvesting, etc., her record is Pro-Life. For several sessions she was one of a small minority of senators to recieve 100% ratings from the National Right to Life Committee.
2. Sorry you didn't get the personal attention you undoubtedly deserve, but you are one of 22 million constituents. All members of congress use form letters crafted to address specific issues. No excuse for misspelling your name - I have an uncommon last name and that always irks me.
3. The RPT platform evidently doesn't carry as much weight in the real world as you would assign to it, nor should it, since it is the work of a handful of activist with way too much time on their hands (I've been a delegate to the last four conventions, trust me). She may not be the most popular Republican with convention delegates, but she is in the state. Election results don't lie. Damned democracy.
Do you have to do this on every thread???
As a Texan who votes for her in the Senate (by marking a straight GOP ticket), I say...
NO!
She is not rock solid in enough ways where we need rock solid. She's good on some things, bad on others.
She is far too clubby with Hillary, DiFi, Snowe, Collins, Patty Murray, Babs McCulsky, Lincoln, Landrieu et al. These women have made a pact never to attack each other or campaign against each other.
She is not national command material, in my opinion.
She is too old (as I view it).
She is maddeningly slow and halting when she speaks. She seems to need cue cards and a speed reading/speaking course.
It's a shame that the Senator will not separate herself from the other non-pro-life women in Washington. She would have me going door-to-door for her.
As I said, her staff met with me in Washington - two young people gave me 30 minutes to go over the stem cell and cloning issue with them. She (of course) responded personally when confronted with her embryonic stem cell stance person to person in Gruene, a couple of years ago.
However, she and her office are hostile to anyone who objects to her endorsement of Roe as "law of the land," of the letter she joined in writing to President Bush calling for increased destruction of embryos (she was one of 14 Republican Senators who signed that letter in June, 2002, or who call her on supporting a bill (back in 2001, 2002) that supposedly prohibited cloning, while actually simply re-defined it, as well as redefining human as beginning at implantation in a womb, and creating a legal term that is an oxymoron: "unfertilized blastocyst." And remember her "brain drain" speech in 2004? The platform is the reason I vote Republican. If Republicans will not protect the rights of all human beings - then none of us are safe.
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