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DCBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 06:39 PM
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I bet McCain wished he had picked Kay Bailey Hutchison for VP.
She is speaking right now. What a contrast with Ms Moose.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 06:42 PM
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1. And that in and of
itself is scary.
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firedupdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 06:42 PM
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2. I know he is kicking his own ass about this one! n/t
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globalvillage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 06:46 PM
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3. She makes Palin look like an idiot.
I'm no fan, but Kay Bailey is at least educated and articulate.
I also love her style (clothing, not politics).
Glad McCain didn't choose her, he might have had a chance.
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juno jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 07:55 PM
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4. We dodged a damn bullet here folks
Any number of VP picks would have McCain competitive. Instead he picked ...well, the rest as they say is history.


I suspect his list was somewhat short because he's not well liked and is certainly, in his own words, no Miss Congeniality.
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GrizzlyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 07:59 PM
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7. He had plenty of choices
Pawlenty, Ridge, Mittens. And yet, as I was thinking as I drifted off to sleep last night, he picked the ONE PERSON that would ENSURE his defeat. It's positively delicious.
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RollWithIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 07:57 PM
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5. I have to say, I watched her speak, and the first thing I thought was thank god she's not running VP
A very classy speech. She oozes 100000x more credibility than Palin.
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faithfulcitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 07:58 PM
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6. A Hutchinson pick terrified me personally.
Edited on Wed Oct-01-08 07:59 PM by faithfulcitizen
she's even pro-choice. yikes!
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:00 PM
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8. And I bet that's why she was disqualifed as a VP pick.
Seems like McCain really wanted an anti-choice candidate.
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Pisces Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:25 PM
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13. If he wanted to pick up Hillary voters, he drastically miscalculated.
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CalGator Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:32 PM
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14. he was such a "mavrick" he picked only someone acceptable to his party
no Kay Bailey Hutchinson, no Lieberman, no Collins/Murray, no Tom Ridge. All fully qualified, nationally known, and pro-choice. He went with someone who is none of the three because his party cared the most about that last issue. Some "mavrick".
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DCBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:34 PM
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16. Yes. I suspect that is correct. He wanted anti-choice.
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AnnieBW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 09:45 PM
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21. He was forced to make an anti-choice pick
The Fundies forced his hand. He wanted LIE-berman or Ridge, but they were pro-choice. Oh, well. His epic fail is Obama's gain!
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:00 PM
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9. And I bet that's why she was disqualifed as a VP pick.
Seems like McCain really wanted an anti-choice candidate.
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 09:53 PM
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22. She's got a mixed record on abortion rights, at best.
I'm lazy I c and p'ed it from Wikipedia. It does lay out the reality evenly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison#Abortion_positions

Abortion positions

Hutchison is against outlawing abortion.<6> She also believes that the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade was appropriate and secures a constitutional right, and that it should not be overturned.<7>

Hutchison is currently considered to be liberal on abortion issues, at least compared to most elected Republicans from Texas. Although she has served on the Advisory Board of The Wish List (Women in the Senate and House) Political Action Committee, which contributes to pro-choice female Republican candidates for Congress, she is no longer on the board <13> and the PAC did not endorse her in 2006. <14>. In the past years NARAL has given her ratings of 0%, 7%, 20%, and 0%, indicating that her voting record mostly favored enacting proposed abortion restrictions. <15>

While in the Texas House of Representatives (1973 to 1977), Hutchison worked to protect rape victims from having their names published with Sarah Weddington, the attorney who won the Roe v. Wade case. She supports some abortion rights, but does not believe taxpayers should fund abortions. Hutchison has also endorsed parental notification laws <16> and in 2006 sponsored legislation to prevent minors from being transported across state lines to circumvent such laws.
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SoonerPride Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:00 PM
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10. He doesn't remember that far back.
I'm not kidding.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:02 PM
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11. I still don't know why he didn't pick Huckabee.
Edited on Wed Oct-01-08 08:54 PM by Patsy Stone
Watching Kay Bailey Hutchison talk about Sarah Palin through clenched teeth with a frozen smile on her face at the RNC was a priceless moment.
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faithfulcitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:24 PM
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12. he was the other that worried me.
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:33 PM
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15. She's ugly though. Imagine having to look at that thing everyday on the campaign trail.
:sarcasm: Just trying to see the world through McCain's perspective.
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RollWithIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:38 PM
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19. The sad thing is, she's not ugly, she's just not young and pretty....
A lot of older women have a classic sort of beauty, but we already know the McCain registered milfvp.com shortly after naming her.
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salonghorn70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:35 PM
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17. Well You Can Say Much About Kay Bailey
She is certainly an adult, regardless of her views. I don't know if it would have helped with the social conservatives. They hate her here in Texas. I can hardly think of anything in politics that I agree with Kay Bailey on. The one thing that I have in common with her is that she and I both attended the University of Texas at the same time. She was a cheerleader. She loves my beloved Longhorns as much as I do. HOOK 'EM HORNS
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Erin Elizabeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:37 PM
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18. I was terrified he'd pick her.
I don't think she wants it, though. I think she has other ambitions.
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salonghorn70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 08:46 PM
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20. Agreed
I think that she will be a very strong candidate for Governor. Although, as I said in the post above yours, she does have a problem with the social conservatives here in Texas. Not sure how that might play out.
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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 10:00 PM
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23. It certainly promises to be an interesting Repub primary in 2010
Hutchison vs. Perry vs. maybe Dewhurst
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