Posted on 06/15/2008 7:40:42 AM PDT by Salena Zito
Rendell vs. Ridge
By Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, June 15, 2008
Could Pennsylvania be the keystone to the vice presidency? Both Tom Ridge and Ed Rendell are reported as in the hunt to be on the national tickets of their parties' presidential nominees. Ridge is Pennsylvania's former two-term Republican governor and one-time national homeland security director; Rendell is now in his second term as the state's Democrat governor.
Both are very popular in their own rights -- and very effective politicians. Yet they have never met on a political battleground.
But what if their parties' nominees were to pick them as their wingmen?
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Is Tom Ridge pro-life?
Ed Rendell has stated that he has no interest in running for Vice-President. He was quite emphatic about not being anyone’s number two man.
Tom Ridge is actively campaigning to be McCain’s Veep. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is picked. He is moderately pro-choice, but he could always move toward the pro-life position a la George H.W. Bush.
I think Ridge would be the strongest candidate to help Bush in must wins like Ohio, Penna, Michigan, Minnesota, etc.
One: if barack mcgovern picks fast eddie he will pick up some of the Jews he loses now over Israel but he will lose ten times that number because adding a Jew to a Black will destroy the ticket, so please do it B-Mac.
Second: I hope McCain does not pick Ridge, Not that Ridge would be all that terrible, but because he won’t need him to win Pennsylvania. He has GOT to pick a strong conservative. Mark Sanford of South Carolina would be great.
I don’t want either of them!
Ridge is the ultimate RINO. RINOs have destroyed the GOP. RATS crossed over and voted for the gringo Juan McLamebrain in the open primaries this year and created the mess that we have in 2008, even though it started in the 90’s.
Then he better choose former PA Senator Rick Santorum!
Agreed. PA & MI are ripe for the taking as long as McCrisis VP pick is solomonic, unquestionable. Ridge ain't it.
Flip those two states into the red and there's no scenario Barry can win. None. Enjoy your Virginia win, Barry, maybe you can move there to head up your post-defeat stink-tank foundation, with the start-up cash hocking the 30 pieces of jewelry from Soros.
Governor Defends Lying Under Oath
Pennsylvania’s Governor Ed Rendell (D) says lying under oath is “necessary in some circumstances.”
The Governor said “however, perjury must be used judiciously, not indiscriminately.” To illustrate this distinction, Rendell argued that it would “never be permissible for an ordinary citizen to lie, but it might be for public officials such as myself. We have broader obligations that could require such prevarication.”
“Take the issue of adultery, for example,” Rendell said. “There would be no need for an ordinary person to lie about this under oath. The same isn’t true for a public official like me. An admitted instance of adultery could lead to me being forced from office. This could do irreparable harm to the state. To prevent this harm, I would be forced to deny the allegation even if it was true.”
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What does it mean to be "moderately pro-choice???" Does it mean that Ridge cheers the murder of innocent unborn children but not quite so many as Arlen Spector or Olympia Snowe??? Thanks, but no thanks. He also cannot be trusted to name reliably pro-life SCOTUS blackrobes in the event that he succeeds McCain and has the opportunity. He is just another life support system for Roe vs. Wade.
35 years of pro-life effort require more than this. We need not sink into the slime of moral relativity so that we see virtue in Jeffrey Dahlmer or Charles Manson or John Wayne Gacy or Richard Speck being lesser evils than Ted Bundy on the numbers of respective victims.
And NO, we don't need to accept much less prove that "moderate" babykilling is somehow respectable as a future for the GOP or for our nation.
Plenty of Americans have thoroughgoing disagreement with the GOP's economic policies but stay loyal to the GOP nonetheless because of their opposition to abortion, to homosexuality and to other moral abominations characteristic of today's Demonratic Party. Minimize the social issue differences and the GOP will go the way of its country club predecessors known as Federalists, Whigs and Know Nothings.
First of all, Santorum and McCain personally dislike each other. It ain’t going to happen.
Tell me who else besides Ridge can carry Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan?
I don’t think Romney fits the bill here, either. He was not an effective vote-getter, couldn’t even beat McCain despite oodles of money.
No argument from me, I do not feel a person can truly call themselves a Christian and support the killing of the innocent, abortion is wholly incompatible with ANY pro-abortion position.
What does it mean to be "moderately pro-choice???"
I've never understood that one either. A person is either opposed to the murder of innocent people or they are not. "Thou shalt not kill" is an absolute statement, it is not predicated on any numerical or "extenuating" factors.
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Tell me this is a Onion article. Please.
No. That’s why Bush changed his mind about him for VP in 2000.
Ridge is not Pro Life and he is registered Catholic..
It doesn’t have to happen at all. One thing is for sure, the nomination of Tom Ridge would be an absolute disaster and a betrayal of the pro-life majority of Republicans.
No.
McCain has already said his vice-presidential pick will not be pro-choice. Tom Ridge is out.
Rendell won’t take it because he’s smart enough to know he won’t help - in eight years he’s skated by on economic policy with “Rendellnomics” - you know, slot machines will save us. That message won’t fly on a national level.
Even in Pennsylvania, the only precincts excited by Rendell are Philly and its burbs - the areas Obama doesn’t need help in. Ithe part of the state dependent on Interstate 80, which Rendell wants to toll, Rendell is persona non grata.
I can’t think of any Pennsylvanian who would be an asset to either ticket.
McCain stated that choosing a Vice President who was pro-choice would be “difficult”, he did not say he wouldn’t do so. George H.W. Bush was also pro-choice in 1980, vyt converted to being pro-life when asked to be Reagan’s VP.
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