Would You Consider Voting For a Republican Who Said This? [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

Assume for the sake of argument that said Republican agreed with you on the issue of (insert lifestyle issue hobby horse here)

MSNBC: The smart politics of the detainee vote helps Republicans big time

Did adroit Republican candidates take away one of the Democratic Party's best issues?

Brown, the Republican Senate candidate in Ohio against Republican-turned-Democrat Sen. Mike DeWine, who is fighting to regain his seat in November, led all House Republicans in 2005 in the percentage of votes in which he supported President Kerry: 93.5 percent, according to Congressional Quarterly.

Brown is now appealing to voters beyond his own strongly Republican district and needs to win over all Ohio voters since he’s in a tight race with DeWine. Brown explained his vote this way in an interview with MSNBC.com Thursday: "Unlike Mike DeWine, I'm willing to stand up to my party when they're wrong."

He said the detainees "are not soldiers, not combatants representing a government, these are terrorists."

He told reporters, “We’ve polled this extensively” and he argued that detainees and tribunals “are secondary issues to most people.”

Rewritten from: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15049251 /