There is no federal funding of abortions. See The Hyde Amendment.
Beat me to it!
How do you think he’ll do in a general election against an Obama-supported candidate?
Better than just about any other Republican now in the field… which would not be much.
Kind of like being the prettiest girl at a leper colony.
IME, the second-term president tends to be nominally hands-off WRT their replacement. Obama will probably make a rousing speech at the convention, then go do presidenty stuff while the candidates duke it out. And, of course, on the outside chance it was Bernie, I am not so sure an establishment conservative like Obama would be all that keen on showing support for him.
I’m pretty sure the idea of guns being pointed at women trying to get an abortion will have a negative impact well beyond how well this dipshit can “speak Churchese”.
Just playing to his audience. His campaign is all about boosting his ratings on Fox when he gets back there, nothing more. It certainly isn’t about helping his party appear to be responsible adults.
Second-term Presidents are just as active, or not, as their party’s nominees want them to be. In 2008, John McCain clearly didn’t want to even be in the same zip code as Dubya; in 2000, Gore was a bit more willing to accept Clinton’s help (and some pollsters said afterwards he should’ve used Clinton even more to campaign for him in the South).
Calling Obama an “establishment conservative” is just silly.
Agreed. I’m just not buying the idea being pushed by one of our other posters that Huckabee’s supposedly brilliant strategy of campaigning in black churches rather than at NAACP meetings is going to rocket him to the top of the GOP heap.
And as ridiculous as his comments are it is just one more example of these clowns repeatedly making comments that make it soooo easy to portray the entire GOP as bent on controlling women’s reproductive organs. The religious right may want that but there are a substantial number of Republican and independent women who disagree.
Huck was elevated in 2008 by the first debate. I’d be willing to bet that will happen again.
Noted.
I have a different recollection. The way I remember it, Gore didn’t want Clinton to campaign for him with the mistaken belief that the sex scandal would make him toxic. Rather, the American populace gave him favorable ratings and Gore’s reluctance in using him was one of the factors, if not the main factor, in his defeat.
The elevation was due to his being relatively unknown in 2008. He no longer will get the benefit of an introduction to the voters, they already know him and have already rejected him before. Unless every question is about abortion or gay marriage, he won’t get a bump with the rabid base.
The fact that Gore chose Lieberman, one of the few Democrats who actually sided with the GOP on the impeachment, as his VP cements this. He couldn’t have done better (or worse) if he had chopped Clinton’s hand off. :smack: Talk about “it’s your election to lose.”
IIRC Gore had Clinton campaign for him in Arkansas and Kentucky, and do some closed-door fundraising in late 2000, but not much more than that (I agree it was largely because of Gore’s concern/distaste over Lewinskygate). McCain didn’t want Bush to do anything for him in 2008.
So many things went wrong for Gore in a very close election that any single factor - having Clinton campaign more for him; paying more attention to Gore’s own home state of Tennessee so that he carried it; not having a butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County; not having Nader in the race; etc. - could have tipped the balance in his favor.
It’s the Butterfly Effect . . .
On bracing yourself to share a stage with Trump:
On Twitter last week, John Weaver, senior adviser to the Republican presidential campaign of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, drew this analogy: “Imagine a NASCAR driver mentally preparing for a race knowing one of the drivers will be drunk. That’s what prepping for this debate is like.”
From this article about Fox News’s Chris Wallace, who will co-moderate (or try to): http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/10-gop-candidates-will-be-trying-to-win-a-debate-chris-wallace-wants-to-make-that-tough-for-all-of-them/2015/08/03/ffd27cf2-eae8-4718-af4a-6c3c08cd1a33_story.html
The problem is that some of the other team coaches will respond by suggesting that their drivers get even drunker. A massive pile-up is inevitable.
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