Mary Katharine Ham had the pleasure and honor to interview Governor Mitt Romney. Romney is – as I have stated before – one of the most qualified candidates around. The Olympics in Salt Lake City, back in 02, would have been an absolute disaster if it was not for the former Governor of Massachusetts’ crisis-solving abilities and, more generally, management skills. That he became Governor of Massachusetts as a Republican, says enough about his appeal to independent / moderate voters, besides, of course, Republican voters, he did well as Governor of that blue state and, lastly, he is a self made multi-millionaire or even billionaire.
Read the entire interview yourself at Townhall.
Some interesting questions and answers:
MKH: Let me jump right into this with the Va Tech tragedy, which is of course, what’s on everyone’s minds this week. A lot of our readers are upset that NBC went ahead and showed the Cho video. Should they have taken that step?
MR: Well, I hope that at some point there’s a level of care and responsibility that’s gonna be shown by the members of the mainstream media not to in any way encourage copycat-type activity. And, the attention being given Mr. Cho is, I think, beyond any reasonable level. I certainly wish we could have been far more discreet in what we decide to show the world and keep these copycats from popping up all over the country.
I’d rather show a lot more coverage of people like Liviu Librescu, the fellow who barred the door to keep the gunman from getting to his students. These are the kind of stories we should be hearing.
MKH: Speaking of Harry Reid, he and the Dems are also cooking up abortion legislation this week in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the partial-birth abortion ban.
MR: I was pleased with the decision, of course, to permit states to outlaw partial birth abortion. But it underscored something else. Four justices disagreed with the majority. And that means that if the next president were to be a Democrat like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, and they appoint more judges like the four who were in the minority, they would say, in effect, that there’s a constitutional right to partial-birth abortion. Late-term, very late term abortion, which is simply a very offensive practice, and it simply underscores the importance of electing a conservative Republican to be the next president.
There is more, so read the whole thing.
And, lastly, on Harry Reid: “Shame on Harry Reid for saying something which will be dispiriting for our troops, and used as propaganda and rallying cries for jihadists around the world.”
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