Posted on 03/19/2008 11:37:46 AM PDT by bmweezer
The site wants to know your choice - or choices - for VP in the GOP. Now through April 6th, you can vote for as many choices from a list of sixteen 'candidates.' The top eight vote getters move onto the 2nd Round. Vote today!
The sixteen are:
Haley Barbour
Jeb Bush
Tom Coburn
Charlie Crist
Jim DeMint
Mike Huckabee
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Joe Lieberman
Sarah Palin
Tim Pawlenty
Rick Perry
Rob Portman
Colin Powell
Condi Rice
Mitt Romney
JC Watts
Hands down - Condi!!
A solid conservative, who'll help take the race issue off the table.
Remember that the Vice-presidency is the only means of taking
the sharp sting out of McCain’s nomination.
So the 2 topmost considerations are:
- winning the election; and
- PRESIDING AS SUCCESSOR-PRESIDENT.
Romney is head-and-shoulders better at both.
McCain......will pick the loser of the Dim fight.
Don't fall asleep on that point..............
molon labe
I am rooting for newt.
Articulates the conservative message better than anyone, and there is sooo much baggage in this election a few affairs and failures is nothing.
Plus, i don’t care who wins.
Likewise. Also, isn't he the fella who showed that he had his finger on the pulse of the GOP grassroots by endorsing Giuliani?
I like JC Watts.
Sarah Palin
Condi Rice
J.C. Watts
It’s not? The Supreme Court says it is a federal issue. How many states are allowed to ban or regulate it now?
Michael Bloomberg
Joe Lieberman
Lincoln Chafee
Point Conceded. It’s a personal issue, so have as many or as few as you like.
Oops, I didn’t read as closely as I should have.
Michael Steele
Barbour
or . . .
Me <- conservative, no skellis in closet, NOT a rino, MK, PK, former Army NCO, loves lots of guns and only one woman, does NOT have great hair, and all-around great guy!
. . . of course most of those qualifications would ensure the GOP didn't want me. haha
It doesn’t matter. McCain will never win the presidency. He is such a loser. Whoever gets the dem nomination will be the next president.
Sanford’s name was first one I looked for.
Amazing that it’s missing, but Joe Lieberman is on it.
With little prompting Rice continued, Yeah, mildly pro-choice. That's what that means. I think that there are a lot of things that we can unite around, and that's where I would tend to be. I'm very comfortable with the president's view that we have to respect and need to have a culture that respects life. This should be an issue pretty infrequently because we ought to have a culture that says that, Who wants to have an abortion? Who wants to see a daughter or a friend or, you know, a sibling go through something like that? And so I believe the president has been in exactly the right place about this, which is, we have to respect the culture of life and we have to try and bring people to have respect for it and make this as rare a circumstance as possible.
When told of the belief that in order to be elected a Republican president, a contender must be firmly pro-life, Rice responded, I'm not trying to be elected.
Rice was then pushed on abortion, with Washington Times White House correspondent Bill Sammon saying, But it sounds like you do not wish to change the laws that now allow (abortion)...
Rice responded, Well, I don't spend my entire life thinking about these issues. You know, I spend my time really thinking about the foreign policy issues. But you know that I'm a deeply religious person and so, from my point of view, these extremely difficult moral issues where we have -- where we're facing issues with technology and the prolongation of life and the fact that very, very young babies are able to survive now -- very small babies are able to survive -- these are great moral issues.
What I do think is that we should not have the federal government in a position where it is forcing its views on one side or the other. So, for instance, I've tended to agree with those who do not favor federal funding for abortion, because I believe that those who hold a strong moral view on the other side should not be forced to fund it.
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