G.O.P. Contenders Endorse Health Insurance Veto

October 5, 2007
G.O.P. Contenders Endorse Health Insurance Veto

The four leading Republican presidential candidates have aligned themselves with President Bush's veto on Wednesday of an expanded health insurance program for children, once again testing the political risk of appearing in lock step with a president who has low approval ratings and some critics of the veto within their party.

"You need to decide where you are on any given issue — not necessarily where the president is — and go from there," Mr. Galen said. "Democrats can say this is a Bush veto or a Bush position, but Republicans don't even mention that because it doesn't make sense to talk that way to Republican primary voters right now."