The Trouble with Ridge - It's not just abortion - Thomas J. Ridge as possible vice-presidential candidate

National Review, June 5, 2000 by John J. Miller

In April, Ridge caused a minor stir when he said that he thought the GOP should change its pro-life platform. He hasn't retreated from that belief, but now he's careful to moderate it. "I expressed a personal opinion. I've never been part of any effort to do that and won't be this year," he says. "We should be fighting Al Gore, not each other."

No matter what the issue-abortion, missile defense, the capital-gains tax-that's pretty good advice.