Word: pro
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...hiding behind campaign cliches--and when that doesn't work, he simply suspends contact with the questioners. On Jan. 20 in Iowa, the Texas Governor suffered through his own media grilling on the abortion issue, repeatedly refusing to say whether he would require his Supreme Court nominees to be pro-life and promising only to choose "strict constructionists" (a line that some moderates might misread but pro-life people see as a pledge for pro-life litmus tests). The reporters kept clamoring until Bush had had enough. Last week one of his campaign spokeswomen informed the media that the Governor...
Even so, Bush is delighted to have surrogates push this kind of attack on his behalf. He's getting help from groups like the National Right to Life Committee, which is running radio ads in conservative South Carolina markets claiming McCain wouldn't be "a strongly pro-life President." (Americans for Tax Reform, which ran a TV commercial in New Hampshire that morphed Bill Clinton's face into McCain's, is considering running a similar spot in South Carolina.) While McCain allies in the pro-life movement point to a consistently pro-life record (he voted in favor of parental...
...combat the perception that McCain is too liberal, his campaign has been running a TV ad in South Carolina in which Representative Lindsey Graham (the G.O.P.'s impeachment star) characterizes him as pro-life, against Internet smut and "conservative." And yet to win, McCain needs to reel in a new kind of South Carolina Republican, the kind who lives along the seacoast and trends more libertarian than conservative. Are there enough of them? Probably not. But McCain will give it his best shot, working to take his campaign to the next level, trying to appear more presidential--to stop...
...McCain in their past debate for waffling about whether his 15-year-old daughter, if she were to become pregnant, would be the one to choose whether or not to abort. (McCain ultimately said the family would decide.) "He's done! Stick a fork in him! Nobody who's pro-life will vote for that man if they have any integrity...
...have earned him something of a despotic reputation in New York City, says Douglas Muzzio, professor of public affairs at Baruch College in New York, when it comes to policies, he will be tough for Clinton to pin down. "Rudy is not a traditional Republican," Muzzio says. "He's pro-gay rights and pro-choice, and while that wouldn't play very well in a national race, it could play well statewide...