You may have seen the stories over the weekend noting 1) that she isn’t ruling out a 2008 run and 2) that she describes herself as “mildly pro-choice.” Number 2 won’t be news to NR readers, although it will be to Dick Morris, who has been promoting her candidacy on the assumption that she’s pro-life. For a lot of pro-lifers, being “mildly” for the slaughter of innocents is going to be a deal-breaker.

Every time I hear about one of these promising pro-choice Republican candidates, it strikes me that their chances would be much, much better if pro-lifers succeeded in overturning Roe. With Roe gone, having control of the presidency would matter a lot less to pro-lifers because appointing judges would matter less than electing legislators. A pro-choicer with restrictions such as Evan Bayh would have a better shot at the Democratic nomination, too. I don’t believe the pundit CW that the end of Roe would be a disaster for pro-lifers. I do think we’d have a more moderate and less polarized politics.