Posted on 11/28/2002 8:02:12 AM PST by Greg Swann
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That aside, I'd be gearing up for enthusiastic-enough support. But someone who can't figure out that babies should be welcomed and protect, hasn't the ethical smarts to govern.
Dan
Hillary can count on my opposition. Condi can count on me to be among those who DEMAND clarity, candor, and moral sense on this issue. Condi can count on me NOT to give her a bye simply because she's pretty, articulate, and black. Condi can count on me to DEMAND that she meet the same requirements I would demand of any other politician asking for my support.
And if she fails, she can on me strongly to support another candidate in the primaries.
Whether the GOP wants to commit suicide at the election itself, we shall see.
Dan
A President Rice would be a strong affirmation of the values of the middle class: Study hard, work hard, show up on time, follow-through, keep a nice home, pay your bills, and raise gracious, thoughtful, hard-working children who understand and honor middle class values. ....... And Condoleezza the president would do two wonderful things for feminism: She would demonstrate that the battle is already won. And she would silence, at least for an instant, the perpetual victims who whine that the battle can never be won......... But the single most vital and valuable treasure that a Condoleezza Rice presidency could present to America, and to the world, is this: She could shout down Islam without saying a word......... But as good as she might be, she will be still better for having been a symbol for everything that is right with the West, and everything that is irredeemably wrong with the East......... The West can change--the West thrives by changing--and the East never can. A President Condoleezza Rice, a conservative black woman president of the United States of America, would make that argument more eloquently than any book ever could...... As an intellectual and an ideologue, she stands for important principles, proud and profound, firm and fixed. But as a symbol, she represents the great tree of Liberty, fully grown from the seed sown so long ago in Athens. Where we had been ignorant--about gender, about race, about creed--we have grown wise. But the West has grown wise because the West can grow wise--can question its premises, can revise its errors, can learn to live better and do better and be better....... A Condoleezza Rice presidency would sing the song of the West, the promise and the potential and the realization. A Condoleezza Rice presidency would sing the unprecedented, unduplicated, unutterable glory of the West--the one place on Earth where each of us can find our own song. And then sing it, loud and proud. With sweetness.
As Mr. Thomas Jefferson said, "These truths are self-evident." and they are symbols with out being declared such.
Plus this: the country club GOP set doesn't want to soil its white gloves with ugly little social issues. Issues like ~1.5 million slaughtered babies per annum. If we, the electorate, tell them in effect, "Okay, fine, not a big issue with us; just give us pretty people," will they select and develop candidates championing that issue, among the other important issues?
Dan
I agree here.
Well, I guess that about sinks any hope she may have.
If we are to be one issue voters then Alan Keyes is our man on the abortion issue. I supported, worked, and voted for him in the 2,000 primaries. Bottomline, he didn't make much of a showing although I think he was right on all issues. Yet, I didn't slash my wrists nor throw away my vote in protest during the general election. I vote Bush and I am glad I did. I didn't do it because he was pro-life, though, but because he was the best choice with a chance to win.
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