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What a disaster this guy will be. Pro-life helps win an election, and as usual it looks like the REpublicans won't do a single pro-life thing. If this guy is truly the man Rove is pushing for the post, what a disaster Rove is. Hasn't met a pro-abort republican he couldn't find a position for somewhere. I like George Bush, but Rove is our Dick Morris, no values except power. I don't know if I can vote for a team with this man on it.

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I'm starting to wonder myself.

It's my birthday, and I'm off in a couple of minutes to meet my sons. Won't be back to enjoy this wonderful debate at all today.

Lott stepping down is a great birthday present, but the GOP leadership is showing their infinite capacity for taking an opportunity and squandering it by coronating Bill Frist as ML.

Dear patent,

"What a disaster this guy will be."

I assume that you mean Sen. Frist. Why do you believe that he will be a disaster?

His voting record on pro-life is good. He is as pro-life regarding abortion as is feasible for a politician who wins elections (opposes legal abortion except for life of mother, rape, incest).

He's not so good on stem cell stuff, but regrettably, a number of otherwise-reliable pro-lifers aren't, either.

He seems about as conservative as Sen. Lott, in terms of the issues. But Sen. Lott, like Sen. Dole before him, believes that the purpose of the legislature is to legislate. Thus, Sen. Lott believed it was more important that the Senate act than that is act conservatively.

I don't know enough about Sen. Frist to know if he has a similar predilection, but I think it is unlikely that he could be worse. And, in Sen. Frist, we will have the benefit of a Majority Leader who does not believe himself obligated to kow-tow to the affirmative action crowd to maintain his viability.

"I don't know if I can vote for a team with this man on it."

I remember there were folks who felt that way about the first President Bush because of advisors like Richard Darman. Of course, the failure to support Mr. Bush led us to the presidency of Mr. Clinton. For me, enough bad things happened during Mr. Clinton's term to justify thinking that conservatives ought to have better supported the first President Bush.

We quickly forget how much damage a liberal president can do.

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