Posted on 03/23/2002 4:54:02 PM PST by Diago
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues & Strategy Bulletin of February 28, 2001
WOULD CONDI RICE AND COLIN POWELL BE "PRO-CHOICE" ON SLAVERY?"Condoleeza Rice, Bush's much-expected pick as national security adviser, has described herself as ‘reluctantly pro-choice.’
" ‘What if I described myself as reluctantly pro-slavery?’ [Douglas] Scott [President of Life Decisions International] retorted. ‘I mean, we are all reluctant to make hard choices.’ ...
It's in terms of consideration of Rice as VP. If that isn't a relevant connection in which to consder one's views on infanticide, then I wonder when you think it would be.
Dan
And Colin Powell has proven again and again that he is an imbecile when it comes to a wide variety of moral issues, including abortion.
Dan
The unfortunate thing about political parties is that their respective politicians do not embrace a universal party point of view.
We have to be very much aware of the person not the party.
No reasonable source. But there have been some Condi for VP lovefests here on freerepublic. Even though no one knows where she stands on social issues, taxes, gov't growth, etc.
I like Rice in her present job. There are a lot of good republicans with elected experience who could be the next vp should Cheney not run.
Correct.
I thought only liberals demonized the opposition. The truth is that a large number of "pro-choice" people are not evil, but ignorant. They don't know the facts, the alternatives, or understand their implications. I think a comparison can be made to white people living in jim crow south. Not all were evil, many were ignorant. Living their lives without a thought for their neighbors' welfare, or if their laws were really just.
The marching orders come from the top. It's G.W. Bush that will head the ticket in 2004 and *his* position will be the de facto administration position. And even this is of limited power while the SCOTUS stands firmly on Roe v. Wade.
I am pro-life. I want as many pro-lifers as possible at the top of the administration. But I fear more a government run by incompetents, no matter what views they hold on abortion, than a government run by sterling individuals who happen to disagree with me on this one issue (unless they are assigned to positions where their stand on abortion will, indeed, directly affect the issue).
I know a lot of people fear that, once a Republican VP is pro-choice, they become the new party leader on the issue should the president leave office by death or by proxy. It is a legitimate concern. But on the office alone, H.H.S. Sec'y Tommy Thompson, Atty General John Ashcroft and Surgeon General Satcher have far more power to actually help or damage the pro-life cause than the vice president does. And Satcher is a Clinton mole. I can only assume his race is what prevents Bush from firing the guy.
Exactly. So if something were to happen to the president, or when the president's two terms were up and the VP would want to run (and of course would have the inside track), you'd want the VP to be prolife.
Depends. If they were born white or free blacks, they probably would be reluctantly pro-slavery. If they were born slaves, they would be strong abolitionists.
Their positions are important because one of them may be Bush's VP during his second term, and thereby become the presidential frontrunner for 2008.
It will be too late to complain after Bush has already made such a move, so we need to let it be known now that it would be completely unacceptable.
I see nothing in the article regarding VP choices.
However, if you mean Diago's "speculation", that's all it is.
I must have missed the "Dick Cheney is out" meeting/memo.
At that time(if it exists at all and not just in the mind of tin-foilers), we are all free to re-visit the issue and discuss it maturely.
I'm sorry, but like I said, this is too much "Chicken Little" for me.
If Cheney steps down due to his poor health, his replacement willbe named at the same press conference. At that time, it will be too late and we will have a pro-abortion VP. And believe me, when that happens there will be very little mature discussion around here.
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