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McCain to offer up a Rice Prez
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Posted on 02/16/2008 10:05:40 PM PST by bshomoic

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To: pissant

You want to tell us Clarence Thomas is an affirmative action pick ?
Keep thinking like a liberal


81 posted on 02/17/2008 12:40:36 AM PST by woofie
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To: pissant

Shame on you, pissant.


82 posted on 02/17/2008 12:49:15 AM PST by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)
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To: Owl_Eagle

I don’t think she would want it either.


83 posted on 02/17/2008 12:50:22 AM PST by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)
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To: ansel12

Many of the Republican senators who voted to confirm Ginsburg and Breyer said that they would never have appointed them themselves. They just said that Clinton won the election and they were the best choices one could reasonably expect from a Democratic president.


84 posted on 02/17/2008 12:50:53 AM PST by Revenge of Sith
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To: Christian4Bush
And Obama isn't?

No, not really. B.O.-mania was made possible by Loser John Edwards, Polarizing Hillary Clinton, the absence of Al Gore, and other nobodies like Kucinich, Dodd, Biden, and Gravel. It's kind of a perfect storm.

85 posted on 02/17/2008 12:51:32 AM PST by L.N. Smithee (Barack Obama = Tony Robbins with a tan)
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To: Lijahsbubbe
Wow. If this is true, it is insultingly pandering.

Hillary's a "negro"?. The Condi Rice as VP idea has been out there since atleast 2003 when many suggested that she run on Bush's second term ticket in order for us to have an incumbant in 2008.

86 posted on 02/17/2008 12:53:20 AM PST by tsowellfan (Obama Facts: http://tinyurl.com/26pkv7)
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To: Solitar

John McCain also likes Janice Rogers Brown, so having a President McCain appoint Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Supreme Court in the future is a possibility. It will truly depend upon if the next President is McCain and if the next Congress is truly a conservative majority in the U.S. Senate. This is just one example of a political incentive to truly get all of the conservative voters to not stay at home on November 4 and to truly vote for McCain and to also vote for conservatives at every political level on November 4!


87 posted on 02/17/2008 12:53:42 AM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (Vote for conservatives AT ALL POLITICAL LEVELS! Encourage all others to do the same on November 4!)
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To: Revenge of Sith

“Many of the Republican senators who voted to confirm Ginsburg and Breyer said that they would never have appointed them themselves. They just said that Clinton won the election and they were the best choices one could reasonably expect from a Democratic president.”


We all know that, that is why it is useless to pull out a candidates vote on supreme court justices, it is always an almost 100% vote.


88 posted on 02/17/2008 12:58:17 AM PST by ansel12 (post-apocalyptic drifter uttered three words, polygamous zombie vampires!)
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To: bshomoic
This is a bad idea. Rice, for all her brilliance, is still Secretary of a State department that is filled with self-serving tenured mutineers who leak like cloth diapers whenever they think the President is wrong. She will also be smeared for things like the aluminum tube statement that turned out to be inaccurate, false representations of her 9/11 Commission testimony, Richard Clarke's ridiculous assertion that she might not have known what Al-Qaeda was before he warned her about it, and other things.

In short, she's too much of a lightning rod, and will allow the Dem nominee to run against Bush rather than McCain.

89 posted on 02/17/2008 12:59:18 AM PST by L.N. Smithee (Barack Obama = Tony Robbins with a tan)
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To: tsowellfan

So what if it’s been out there. It hasn’t been done yet, and if they do it now, it’s obviously being done only to counter what the Democrats are doing.


90 posted on 02/17/2008 12:59:39 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: ansel12; Rennes Templar
Yes, but McCain bragged about the votes on Larry King just over two years ago: He could have joined Jesse Helms on principle and voted against these Clinton appointees ... but who am I kidding? John McCain doesn't do such things. "I'm proud of my friendship with a lot of Democrats," he says in the above interview. And we all know what that means.

Those who believe McCain will now go against his track record and stand against Democrats, particularly on judges, are fooling themselves.

Need I invoke the Gang of 14?

91 posted on 02/17/2008 12:59:52 AM PST by Gelato (... a liberal is a liberal is a liberal ...)
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To: Ingtar

Obama is not only pro-abortion, he is the one who fought Jill Stanek’s group in Illinois on the Born Alive Protection Act.

He actually fought a law to protect babies who were born alive when their mothers intended to kill them!

Both Hillary and Obama voted against the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. (and, of course, Bill Clinton vetoed it when it passed the House and Senate 3 times over the course of his administration.)


92 posted on 02/17/2008 1:00:31 AM PST by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org)
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To: pissant
Thanks for saying that.

That being said, Rice has been an absolute disaster in the State Department.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

93 posted on 02/17/2008 1:02:47 AM PST by expatguy ("An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - New & Improved - Now with Search)
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To: Gelato

Whoopee!

Ginsberg had 3 votes against her, you are really rocking our world.


94 posted on 02/17/2008 1:05:37 AM PST by ansel12 (post-apocalyptic drifter uttered three words, polygamous zombie vampires!)
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To: bshomoic

All black voters need to see is the McCain family portrait

His adopted daughter is black. She had a cleft palate and was a part of operation smile I believe.

That made me like him even more.


95 posted on 02/17/2008 1:09:48 AM PST by IreneE (Live for nothing or die for something.)
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To: pissant; bshomoic; DrGunsforHands; Rudder; Christian4Bush; Zeon Cowboy; norge; InABunkerUnderSF

Many of us have considered Secretary Rice in her own right as Presidential material.

The VP is nearly always selected on how he (she) will balance the ticket and bring in some group of voters, whether it be the South, Conservatives, etc.s

She’s not exactly pro-choice. In fact, she’s been a bit evasive about it. She’s said that she wouldn’t act to overturn Roe v. Wade. Which is what President and Mrs. Bush said. All before the changes with 4-D ultrasound and embryonic stem cell debates — and especially before the Partial Birth Abortion ban.

I’d like to see Oklahoma Former Congressman J.C. Watts. in the job. Again, someone I’ve thought of in his own right. Many have considered Steele, who speaks as a conservative.

What I do not want is to see Kay Bailey Hutchinson on the ticket.


96 posted on 02/17/2008 1:11:58 AM PST by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org)
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To: All; bshomoic; DrGunsforHands; Rudder; Christian4Bush; Zeon Cowboy; norge; InABunkerUnderSF
Here's an article on Condee's views on abortion from March 2005 (sorry, original formatting):

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday in an interview with reporters and editors from the... Washington Times described herself as "mildly pro-choice" and "kind of libertarian" on abortion issues, adding that she would not want the federal government "forcing its views on one side or the other" (Sammon, Washington Times, 3/12). Rice said she believes President Bush "has been in exactly the right place" on abortion, "which is we have to respect the culture of life and we have to try and bring people to have respect for it and make this as rare a circumstance as possible" (Allen, Washington Post, 3/13). However, she added that she has been "concerned about a government role" but has "tended to agree with those who do not favor federal funding for abortion, because I believe that those who hold a strong moral view on the other side should not be forced to fund" the procedure. Rice said she also is a "strong proponent of parental notification" and "a ban on late-term abortion." She added, "These are all things that I think unite people, and I think that that's where we should be." Rice, who is the daughter of a Presbyterian preacher, called abortion an "extremely difficult moral issue" that she said she approaches as a "deeply religious person" (Washington Times, 3/12). She said that abortion "should be an issue pretty infrequently because we ought to have a culture that says that, 'Who wants to have an abortion? Who wants to see a daughter or a friend or a sibling go through something like that?'" Rice has been quoted as having a "mildly pro-choice" stance on abortion since an August 1999 National Review profile, according to the Post (Washington Post, 3/13). When asked about speculation that she might run for president in the 2008 election, Rice said, "I never wanted to run for anything. ... I'm going to try to be a really good secretary of state; I'm going to work really hard at it. I have enormous respect for people who do run for office. It's really hard for me to imagine myself in that role" (Washington Times, 3/12).

97 posted on 02/17/2008 1:19:27 AM PST by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org)
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To: Gelato
McCain and Ginsburg


98 posted on 02/17/2008 1:23:08 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: hocndoc

I've been for Condi for President for years, ever since I heard an interview when she was asked about her stance on the second amendment.

She stated that she was absolutely behind the second amendment as she remembered her father and other black men taking turns standing guard with shotguns on the street corners of her neighborhood during the racial problems of the time.

She said that every American deserved the right to gun ownership and self defense.

When anyone has had a gut level experience like that, NOTHING is going to change their opinion and you can count on them to defend that opinion to the end.

99 posted on 02/17/2008 1:32:26 AM PST by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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To: Mogger
By the way, if Condi is running for any office, she has my vote and support. Too bad she would have to be tied into the Mc-whats-his-name "Republican" "candidate".

On the other hand, he is getting on in years...

100 posted on 02/17/2008 1:34:55 AM PST by Mogger (Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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