Hutchinson/Steele 2008
Posted on 01/30/2007 2:06:16 PM PST by YCTHouston
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the largest Republican vote-getter in the 2006 congressional elections and the most popular Republican in Texas, said yesterday she would consider an offer to run for vice president next year. "If our party's nominee called me and said we are putting everything in the grid, and we think you are the best person, would I say no? I can't imagine that I would say no," she said. "Would I seek it or do something to promote it? Absolutely not," she told editors and reporters of The Washington Times at a meeting at the newspaper.
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She did not dispute, however, that she is widely discussed for top offices, including the vice presidency, in part because she is the most conservative and longest-tenured female Republican senator.
An opponent of partial-birth abortion and proponent of parental notification, she has a zero rating from the pro-choice NARAL and a 90 percent rating from the anti-tax Americans for Tax Reform. Her American Conservative Union 91 percent lifetime voting record puts her ahead of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Utah Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, with 90 each. Mrs. Hutchison, the lead sponsor of a bill in 2005 to repeal the gun-ownership ban in the nation's capital, said she would reintroduce the legislation this year.
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why #2?
she's better than most of the #1 spot candidates
KBH pingage
Don't hate her in the least. She's just unqualified.
i like her...
Apparently she's never had the desire to launch a national campaign, but I agree I'd be a lot more comfortable w/ her than some of the others, say McCain...
Gingrich/Hutchison '08.
ACU Lifetime of 91, for those of you rushing headlong to post that she's a RINO.
Glad you're not a hater. Was thinking more of some fellow Texans who threw stones when she was thinking of running against Rick Perry in our Gov. primary.
" What's she doing here??? "
Had to excerpt, but if you read the full it's from an inteview with the Wa. Times ed board and reporters, so this was only one question among many, including her thoughts on Iraq and immigration (but of course '08 speculation makes a better headline).
She hangs with Hillary & friends at Vital Voices -- www.vitalvoices.org -- an organization that pretends to do all kinds of wonderful things to stop trafficking worldwide, but spends piles of money pushing legalized prostitution and throwing condoms around third world countries.
She also was not the most helpful person when it came to judicial nominations. Ask Leon Holmes sometime about who held up his nomination and why. Silly man had the gall to write an article for his church, with his wife, about biblical principles of marriage. KBH had kittens over it.
Sorry, I don't dig feminists.
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What makes her "unqualified" to be a VEEP?
Just a question, but did these people always ask themselves rhetorical questions and then answer them? Or did that start when Rumsfeld started doing it?
"ACU Lifetime of 91, for those of you rushing headlong to post that she's a RINO"
Unless your last name is not Buchanan, Tancredo, or Keyes, in some Freepers books you are not a conservative.
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The only reason I didn't want her to run against Perry is that I think US Senator is a lot more important of a position. Expecially in Texas.
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