Submit a Story!
Votes
topics:

vote down flag
riehlworldview.com - 8/19/2008
As A Non-Right To Lifer On McCain's Veep Pick
—
Via Michelle and elsewhere : NR has learned that the McCain campaign has been calling key state GOP officials around the country the last couple of days and sounding them out about the consequences of a pro-choice VP pick. The campaign is asking about the reaction of conservative grass-roots activists to such a pick and whether a pro-choicer can be sold to them. This is an indication that ...

Blog Reactions

(Obsolete Feed):  Is John McCain Considering a Pro-Choice VP Pick?

Comments
Blog Reactions

Is John McCain Considering a Pro-Choice VP Pick?
(Obsolete Feed) — ... This has, not unexpectedly, setting off a round of conservative hand-wringing. Michelle Malkin gets right to the point: Is McCain going to screw conservatives (again)? Wouldn’t put it past him. Would you? Which is why, despite all the encomiums he’s received from his Saddleback appearance, I haven’t joined the ga-ga bandwagon (and won’t). Dan Riehl, who shares my relative lack of interest in the abortion issue, sees a more fundamental flaw in McCain: I don’t consider myself Pro-Choice or Pro-Life ...

Related Content
Battling Big Oil
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 8/19/2008 — As John McCain travels to do a gimmicky appearance on a Gulf of Mexico oil rig to argue that oil companies should be given greater freedom to wreak environmental havoc and damage coastal economies in the name of enhanced production, can we recall ...
VP Items
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 8/19/2008 — Item : NR's Rich Lowry reports that the McCain campaign is calling GOP state party officials and sounding them out about a pro-choice running mate. Item : a Facebook group dedicated to speculation that Obama's choosing Tim Kaine, and he's doing it ...
Republican Rumors, FWIW
corner.nationalreview.com 8/19/2008 — Was just talking to a GOP strategist. His read is: Ridge isn't happening. Has at least one RNC official who has been told by the McCain campaign that Ridge is out -- will not be the VP, not being considered. (I'll totally believe that. Ridge makes ...
Barack Obama's image suffers under John McCain attacks, poll finds - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 8/19/2008 — The survey also illustrates some of the campaign's racial undercurrents as the Illinois senator strives to become the first African American president. Most voters say they know at least some people who feel uneasy about electing a black president; ...
Gallup Daily: Obama at 45%, McCain at 44%
gallup.com 8/19/2008 — Barack Obama has 45% of the support of registered voters and John McCain 44% in Gallup Poll Daily tracking for Aug. 16-18.
McCain vs. Obama: Battling over Iraq — First Read 8/19/2008
Covering McCain’s VFW speech yesterday, the New York Times writes that the GOP candidate “began a hard-hitting political attack on … Obama’s national security credentials … and stepped up his rhetoric against the Russian presence in Georgia in remarks ...
Do McCain rallies signal VP announcement? — CNN.com - Politics 8/19/2008
Several GOP sources said they are planning events with the assumption that Sen. John McCain will name his running mate August 29, the day after the Democratic National Convention ends.
Northwest bans ad from airport — POLITICO.com: Politics 8/19/2008
An ad aimed at presumptive GOP nominee John McCain is ordered removed from the convention airport.
Conservatives Warn McCain Against Abortion-Supporting Running Mate — FOXNews.com 8/19/2008
As speculation grows around who John McCain will select as his vice presidential candidate next week, GOP pundits are urging the presumptive presidential nominee not to pick a running mate who supports abortion rights. Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom ...
DNC targets McCain on energy with oil drum stress balls — CNN Political Ticker 8/19/2008
(CNN) – Last month, the Republican National Committee tire gauges as part of its effort to rip Sen. Barack Obama’s energy policy. Now the Democratic Party is returning the favor, sending journalists oil drum-shaped stress balls as the presumptive ...