Posted on 08/19/2008 9:45:40 AM PDT by the anti-liberal
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Wouldnt put it past him. Would you? Which is why, despite all the encomiums hes received from his Saddleback appearance, I havent joined the ga-ga bandwagon (and wont).
Rich Lowry reports:
NR has learned that the McCain campaign has been calling key state GOP officials around the country the last couple of days and sounding them out about the consequences of a pro-choice VP pick. The campaign is asking about the reaction of conservative grass-roots activists to such a pick and whether a pro-choicer can be sold to them. This is an indication that the McCain campaign is serious about the possibility of a pro-choice VP nominee and that McCain leaving the door open to Tom Ridge last week may not have been merely a friendly nod to a longtime supporter.
Sound off. Guess they didnt hear you loud enough the first go around.
Hat tip: Big A.
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Update: David Limbaugh calls it
McCain must quit echoing the Democratic talking point that places form over substance and the illusion of bipartisanship above principle. Who says Americans want us to work together if that means abandoning legal protection for the innocent unborn or other inviolable principles?
Update: McRudy?!?!?!
The very best thing you can do, regardless of who you vote for on the top of the ticket (if at all), is to vote for as many conservatives as you can down ticket.
Yes, and sounding like just another unappeasable.
If McCain wins he will be working with a house and senate with a makeup pretty much like exists today - Dems may strengthen their majorities slightly, but not to a supermajority. Is that congress going to be able to send a powerfully pro-abortion bill (or a powerfully anti-abortion bill) up to the president? I doubt it.
This just seems like a tempest in a teapot. McCain is a pro-life senator, and would be a pro-life President, but he's not likely to be able to do much to advance the issue in either direction. The good news here is, congress is not likely to be able to do much harm, unless there is a much much larger pro-Dem blowout than what is anticipated.
Rush is talking about this today. The only chance Barak Obama has of becoming President is if John McCain selects a pro-choice running mate like Ridge or Leiberman. That’s why the RAT media is promoting them.
McCain should find out which one of his campaign operatives are making these calls and fire him. Of course, Ridge is co-chairman of the campaign. So it could be Ridge who’s making the calls.
Always do
If you got the kind of trashy, disgusting, vicious, racially charged email she has on a regular basis, it would probably get to you too.
Who?
That doesn't absolve you of responsibility!
Yes, GO! (Away)
It only works if enough people vote for the same third party or write-in.
“We didnt - the media picked a loser for us.”
Certainly they got their “maverick”, but it was after all voters in the primary who picked McCain over say, the clear conservative choice, Duncan Hunter.
“The only way you have to do this is to not vote for him.”
I hear what you are saying but see my tagline.....
This has to be a smoke screen. No way the McCain campaign is that stupid to pick a pro-choice VP. (or are they? geez)
I think the main question here is not so much what kind of a presidency will a pro-choicer be but how many voters will a “pro-choicer” turn away?
Who is this "Ron" person? Not Ron Paul? Is he even running? I thought Bob Barr was the LP candidate?
Did Christ ever have to vote?
What is a pro-choice VP going to DO about Roe v. Wade?
Baloney. The voters picked McCain.
A biased media has too much influence in these matters. It's disgusting.
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