Is GOP Platform 'Inclusive Enough' on Abortion, Matthews Demands?

By Media Research Center
August 29, 2008

During his normal Hardball program on MSNBC on Thursday afternoon, Chris Matthews pressed Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison if the "Republican party platform is inclusive enough on the issue of reproductive or abortion rights." Hutchison, whose name has been floated as a possible vice presidential nominee for John McCain, didn't give a straight yes or no answer, and mentioned that in her view, "...both the Republican and the Democratic platform generally have areas that are not mainstreamed, and I don't think that you can agree with either platform in its entirety, and I think you just have to understand that a candidate's views are going to prevail and I think people choose the candidate."

[This item, by the MRC's Matthew Balan, was posted late Thursday night on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ]

One wonders if Matthews would ask pro-life Democrats if their party platform was "inclusive enough" on abortion, or if the party in general was "inclusive enough" or tolerant enough of pro-lifers.