From Hillary Clinton’s concession speech yesterday: “You know, I wrote a book some years ago called ‘It Takes a Village to Raise a Child,’ and in it I have a chapter that I titled ‘Every Child Needs a Champion.’ Well, I think that the American people need a president who is their champion, and that is what I intend to be.” Thanks, mom.

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Alan Keyes, “who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000, has formally entered the 2008 White House campaign,” UPI reports. Finally, the alternative everyone’s been waiting for.

Sep 17, 2007 | Comments Off | Tags: ,

Mitt Romney inconsistent despite flip-flops

Mitt Romney is being taken to task for changing his stance on many sensitive issues, such as abortion and gay marriage, in order to appeal to conservatives. But even if we take him at his words, his new positions are completely inconsistent. Here he is talking about abortion on This Week:

Mitt Romney: Abortion is taking human life. There’s no question but that human life begins when all the DNA is there necessary for cells to divide and become a human being.

Is it alive? Yes. Is it human? Yes. And, therefore, when we abort a fetus, we are taking a life at its infancy, at its very, very beginning roots, and a civilized society, I believe, respects the sanctity of human life.

Stephanopoulos: So if abortion is the taking of a life, should women who have abortions and doctors who perform them be jailed?

Mitt Romney: My view is that we should let each state have its own responsibility for guiding its laws relating to abortion. … But I’d like to see the Supreme Court allow states to have greater leeway in defining their own laws.

Stephanopoulos: But if it’s killing, why should states have leeway?

Mitt Romney: You know, that’s one of the great challenges that we have. There are a lot of things that are morally very difficult and, in some cases, repugnant that we let states decide. For instance, Nevada allows prostitution. I find that to be quite repugnant as a practice.

Fair enough. He’s a federalist who believes states should decide important questions, even ones he characterizes as the taking of life. So how does he feel about gay marriage? Surely he’ll take a federalist approach on something that’s not a question of life and death.

Mitt Romey: I think every child deserves a mom and a dad, and that’s why I’m so consistent and vehement in my view that we should have a federal amendment which defines marriage in that way.

Feb 19, 2007 | Comment | Tags: , , ,

Richardson the anti-Hillary?

The “most dangerous” Dem presidential candidate could be Bill Richardson, Ed Morrissey points out in the Examiner today. If experience is what you’re looking for, Morrissey says, Richardson’s your man: congressman, U.N. ambassador, energy secretary, and governor — and apparently more than competent at each stint. The way I see it, Hillary, like Al Gore, can’t keep up a warm, unrobotic schtick for a whole year, and Obama is a newcomer to national, hardball politics and could have a Dean moment of some kind. Richardson, to me, looks like the anti-Hillary everyone was hoping Mark Warner would be.

Jan 23, 2007 | Comments Off | Tags: , ,

Circling the Oval Office

The WSJ has a great chart with info on all the presidential contenders, declared and potential. Great to keep track of all 28 of them. From Duncan Hunter to Chris Dodd.

Jan 17, 2007 | Comments Off | Tags:

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