March
31st 2008
Posted under John McCain
Daniel Mccarthy has an interesting article he posted on Takimag.com that not only looks at McCain’s position on abortion vis-a-via the contex of Republican politics (meaning the cynical GOP’s enabling of Roe) and what a post-Roe political scene woudl look like.
roho on 31 Mar 2008 at 11:49 pm #
I have watched wana-be conservatives on sites like “Townhall . com” practicaly beg John McAmnesty to simply throw them some kind of conservative bone! They cry, plead, and beg, John Boy to be a conservative.
It has been pathetic as indoctrinated neocons have been brainwashed into the FEAR that the world will come to an end if McCAin doesn’t win?
And now they expect him to humor social conservatives?……..Hell! He hates conservatives. He hauls Juan Fernandez around on the campaign trail, while ignorant conservatives request a committment to border security?
Ha-Ha……..Ha-Ha…….IMagine people stupid enough to be asking John McCain for a pledge against illegal immigration!……Why not ask Bill Clinton for a committment to celebacy!……NEOCON LEMMINGS are simply stupid!
McCAin has no intrest in anything other than WAR!……IN his pathetic little Napoleonic mindset, he is soon to be Ceaser!
Patroon on 03 Apr 2008 at 2:57 pm #
Tom Piatak comments on the GOP/Roe question on TAC’s new daily blog:
There has been much discussion of late–by Daniel Larison, Daniel McCarthy, Ross Douthat, and others–concerning what pro-lifers can expect from the GOP. (I am in the minimalist camp, as I wrote here). Further indication that pro-lifers should keep their expectations low came today from pro-lifer and McCain supporter Ramesh Ponnuru, who concluded that Roberts’ testimony in his confirmation hearing for the D C Circuit Court of Appeals that Roe is the “settled law of the land†did not “preclude†him from voting to strike down Roe as Chief Justice. But Ponnuru added, “Given his judicial minimalism, however, I think that Roberts will be reluctant to find that a case does require him to affirm or overturn Roe.â€
The political goal of the pro-life movement is to see Roe overturned. Having a Chief Justice who does not want to ever reach the issue brings us no closer to that goal, and Republican counsels of patience are wearing thin. Would economic conservatives have loyally supported the GOP for 28 years, if during that time the Republicans had failed to enact a single tax cut and the official to whom Republicans insisted on deferring on tax policy never wanted to make a decision on tax cuts one way or the other?”
Bottom line, Roberts will neither overturn Roe nor will he allow the court to hear an abortion case anytime soon.