Here comes the anti senator wing of the FR. Condi doesnt guaruntee she'll bring the blacks or women and she has no elected experience. Not to mention shes pro abort and pro aff action which will hurt her with the base. This whole a Senator can't win was only brought up and hammered relentlessly through the 2004 campaign so republicans could feel better about themselves when Kerry was nominated. Kerry was a looser candidate who'd compromise and flip flopped on dozens of issues throughout his tenure as a Senator and he came 100k votes of the presidency.
George Allen is no Bob Dole and to compare him to Bob Dole is an insult.
To compare G. Allen to Bob Dole is an insult!!!!!! Isn't that the truth!!!!!!!!!!
Since so many states allow crossover voting in primaries it may be possible for a pro-abortion candidateto win the nomination, but I doubt Rice could win the general election. No doubt she would pick up many black and pro-abortion moderate votes that a white pro-lifer would lose. But once her pro-abort stance becomes widely known I don't believe there would be enough of those to offset the millions of votes she would lose among conservative evangelicals and devout Catholics.
I for one will never vote for a pro-abortion candidate for any local, state, or county office no matter how much we may agree on other issues or how awful the opposition candidate may be. Anyone who believes it's OK to kill innocent human beings in the womb for any reason other than to save the mother's life doesn't have the moral integrity to govern a county, state, a nation.
That doesn't necessarily mean I would vote for the opposition, it just means I would leave that part of my ballot blank.