As I recall Bush used her as a selling point in the 2004 re-election. She was America's first Lady sweetheart being compared with Kerry's entertaining (as in joke) rich elitist wife. I was taken in by her LB myself, but then again I was a huge Bush fan too.
This admission is clearly something she wanted to keep out of the press until husband Bush was out of office. Her views most likely reflect their daughter's liberal opinions that sound much like Megan McCains. This makes me think of Cheney's recent admission of his views on Open Homosexuality in the military(which would be a disaster) , I always figured those were his real views... but had to wait....
I agree. And Cheney, a guy that I like, was clearly way out of line with his advocacy of open overt homosexuality in the military.
I don’t like it when people who could be such a positive resource, destroy their credibility. At least I’m honest enough to address reality for what it is.
I was pretty sure Laura was shaky on some important matters. As long as she kept it to herself, it was her personal business. When she made it public, it became mine.
I find it remarkable that I took it on faith that GWB’s pro-life belief was going to influence the rest of his character so profoundly that it alone would be enough to make him the right man to be POTUS. Now notice that, although abortion is mentioned when there is a SCOTUS vacancy, the big issues for the GOP are the budget, crap and trade, amnesty, obamacare, etc. In fact, in a way, Obama used Stupak’s commitment to the pro-life cause to get his vote for obamacare.
Another strange irony (at least a double irony) is that the amnesty of 10s of millions of illegals who are mostly pro-life would make it almost impossible to do anything for the unborn, and that pro-life GWB fought so hard to pass amnesty.