Posted on 07/13/2012 5:10:29 PM PDT by Nachum
A firestorm of speculation has erupted surrounding Mitt Romney’s possible choice of Condoleezza Rice as his vice-presidential pick. Drudge leaked her name last night, and the conflagration started almost immediately.
The assessment of social conservatives to a Rice pick must be simple and straightforward: over our dead bodies.
Condi Rice is extremely intelligent, highly educated, winsome, and wrong on the major moral issues of our time.
She is, by her own description, “mildly pro-choice” on abortion. Well, it’s either a baby or it’s not. Either a baby is being killed in an abortion, or it’s not. There is no “mildly” about it.
She does not want the government “forcing its views” on the sanctity of life. She thus blithely and blindly ignores the “self-evident” truth that the fundamental purpose of government, according to the Founders, is to “secure” for its people the “unalienable right” to life, which has been bestowed upon us by the Creator.
She told Christianity Today that, when it comes to abortion, “I’m generally pretty libertarian in these matters,” and that she doesn’t want “the government involved in these really hard moral decisions.” I hate to break it to Ms. Rice, but that’s the sacred responsibility of lawmkers: to make really hard moral decisions. If she doesn’t have the stomach for it, she’d best leave the task to others with a little more starch in the spine.
The problem with this business of morality, of course, is that the pro-abortion crowd has absolutely no hesitation about using the force of government to impose its moral views on American society. In truth, morality is all anyone can legislate. The only question is whose morality will be legislated: the morality of God or the morality of man?
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Yet she remains a wild-card.
Imagine for a moment, the Democrat card changes, to include Hillary.
Just imagine that for a moment...
Cannot happen?
I’ve wondered if this might be a strategy to smoke Hillary out
Months ago I got mad at the Romney campaign and told them he's just another globalist neocon warmonger. They got all upset. Don't you know how important it is to beat Obama? Duh. No. I had no clue. /sarc
It would suit me if he'd pick Elizabeth Hasslebeck but the libs hate her plus she doesn't have much of a backbone to stand up to those broads on that show. They just tolerate her for ratings because she adds a little counterpoint and is so pretty. No, that wouldn't work.
I don't like any of them put forward so far and if Rubio is not a natural born citizen which I don't know, I will not vote for him because it would be hypocritical.
I haven’t a clue as to who the pick will be - but my bet, knowing Romeny, whoever it will be will almost certainly tick off the majority of conservative voters.
Wonder how mittens feels about that?
Let's not and say we did.
In Depth with Bill Gertz
Bill Gertz discusses his new book "The Failure Factory," on C-span. [VIDEO]
..."First there was Condoleeza Rice, a classic RINO. Her tenure was marred by the fact that she brought to the White House some of most misguided anticonservative liberals - both Republican and Democrat. She and the president failed to understand the strategic principle of government that picking the wrong people results in the wrong policies." ...
I can’t remember where I came across this, so I can’t quote a source or prove it to be accurate. But....I just can’t shake the feeling that it is true.
It seems to me that Rice was one of the group in the Bush administration that kept wanting to force Israel to make land for piece concessions to the the Arab terrorists while getting more dead bodies for the effort.
Bush’s policy people were not very strong backers of Israel and IMO only look better in comparison to Zero’s entourage of anti Semites.
I can’t remember where I came across this, so I can’t quote a source or prove it to be accurate. But....I just can’t shake the feeling that it is true.
It seems to me that Rice was one of the group in the Bush administration that kept wanting to force Israel to make land for piece concessions to the the Arab terrorists while getting more dead bodies for the effort.
Bush’s policy people were not very strong backers of Israel and IMO only look better in comparison to Zero’s entourage of anti Semites.
Sorry about the double post. Must be a defective mouse button. :-)
The condo was originally owned by three principals, Secy. Rice, Bean plus Coit Blacker, a Stanford professor who is openly gay. Blacker later sold his interest in the condo to Rice and Bean.
The interlocking relationships in the Beltway among politicians, government officials, media personalities, staffers, gays and lesbians is undoubtedly more prevalent than one might suspect.
Leni
“She does not want the government “forcing its views” on the sanctity of life.”
I agree with this. Isn’t this the problem of Roe vs. Wade? The government “forcing its views on the sanctity of life.”?
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