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Thursday, September 15, 2005
Kudos
Very often politicians, and Bush has been one of the best, dodge politically-dangerous questions by claiming that they can't answer them because they are "hypothetical questions."
So I was quite pleased to see how Tim Russert handled such a dodge while moderating the Virginia Governor's debate and questioning Republican candidate Jerry Kilgore, per Taegan Goddard's great site, Political Wire:
WTOP has the exchange between Virginia gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore (R) and moderator Tim Russert at a debate yesterday when the candidate refused to answer whether he would outlaw abortion except for cases of rape, incest or the mother's life.
Kilgore replied that the question was "a hypothetical. You don't know what any Supreme Court in the future is going to do."
"If the Virginia legislature passed a tax increase, would you veto it or sign it?" Russert persisted.
"I would veto it," Kilgore answered.
"That's a hypothetical question," the NBC Meet The Press host interjected, cutting Kilgore off as a crowd of about 500 business leaders and politicians - most of them sympathetic to Kaine - broke into laughter at Kilgore's expense.
The Washington Post website has the video, which is worth a watch to see how angry Russert gets.
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