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Originally Posted by Iriemon  Bush's hands weren't so tied that he wasn't able to appoint two anti-Roe justices (Alito and Roberts) to the Supreme court, giving them 4 out of the 5 members.
With one more the Roe majority is gone. The president makes that decision. And McCain has made it clear and unambiguous that that is what he will do.
Why do you not think that is not a danger? |
Because I'm convinced the Republican party does not want it and will not allow it to happen, even as they make every effort to appease the uneducated conservative masses into
believing that they're doing all they can to effect such a change.
In fact, I do not believe they would allow it. They know as well as we do that it would be disastrous.
Bush might've criminalized abortion, had he been able to, which he wasn't.
But Bush is a special case. There are no other Republican candidates, no other Republican
politicians (on a national level; perhaps on a very small scale State or municipal level, there are) like Bush.
McCain is not like Bush. McCain is fundamentally sane.
Should McCain win, there's no way he and his administration would want to be associated with opening the can of worms that overturning Roe would be.
He would protect Roe, even as he gave lip service to believing abortion to be immoral and/or tragic, as every president since Nixon has done.
It's the only possibility.
Bush was a loose cannon; we've all paid the price and learned our lesson, even the conservatives.
Never again will a politician so incompetent, so unqualified, and so fundamentally unstable and outside the mainstream be elected to the highest office in the land.
The job of the next president- be that Hillary, McCain, or Obama- will be to return our nation to sanity and normalcy, to reassure the American people and make them feel safe again, to
unite our wounded and divided nation.
It will probably take three or four terms, however, for America to recover from the damage Bush has done. And that's under the
best of circumstances.
The job of the next president will be to pull us out of the quagmire in the middle east and to stabilize the economy. To figure out some way to provide for the poor, and for the blue-collar working class, who can now no longer afford health care either, even if they could when times were better.
The last thing the next president would
dream of doing is revoking women's reproductive rights, or fiddling around with
any of the fundamentalist agenda.
I know this for a fact; we have nothing to worry about.
I don't know what else to say about it.
If we're still both here on this message board in three years, and if McCain is our president, I'll say, "See? I told you so."