tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899606766246433608.post2053717149357602076..comments2023-11-08T12:09:20.020-05:00Comments on Prove Me Wrong: Republicans Oppose Abortion?Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10530680372103907969noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899606766246433608.post-88732208431156792842008-07-15T21:20:00.000-04:002008-07-15T21:20:00.000-04:00Good points...except you missed alot in the middle...Good points...except you missed alot in the middle.<BR/><BR/>For one, lets not forget Robert Bork. Republicans tried getting him through and when that failed tried to moderate a bit...but not fundamentally. After all, even Bork assumed Kennedy would vote pro-life. <BR/><BR/>In fact, that is a general pattern with conservative justices. They are overall conservative on lower courts but as soon as they get to the top, the New York Times and other liberal groups shunning them is just too much for them to bare...so they slowly start treading to the left. Can't much blame the right for this. After all, nobody could predict the future.<BR/><BR/>Here's a better summary by Douthat:<BR/><BR/><B>it remains the case for all the pro-choice sympathies of leading GOPers, the Republican Party nearly succeeded in overturning Roe v. Wade fifteen years ago, and would have if one man - Anthony Kennedy - hadn't changed his mind about the issue at the last minute. It also remains the case that the Bush Administration has seemingly brought to Supreme Court within a single vote of undoing what Kennedy wrought in 1992. It further remains the case that while overturning Roe wouldn't magically restore us to some Ozzie-and-Harriet wonderland, returning control over abortion law to the hands of the voting public remains a necessary goal for any pro-life, socially-conservative politics that takes itself seriously as a change agent in American life. And it further remains the case that to vote for Barack Obama in 2008 is to give up on overturning Roe for at least a decade, probably for two, and possibly for all time.</B><BR/><BR/>Voting for Obama over the Republicans imperfect efforts at overturning Roe is like voting for McCain over the Democrats imperfect efforts at stopping the war. In short, if you really care about the pro-life cause, you have no other choice than to vote McCain.HispanicPundithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10220166238164432290noreply@blogger.com