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Originally Posted by 1069  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.
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Can you expound on this? The know it woudl be disasterous how and for whom such that they would not allow the final deciding vote on the court.
Certainly the religious right faction which is a dominant part of the party does not believe it would be disasterous to overturn Roe.
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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.
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That is a fallacy. Scalia and Thomas (appointed by Reagan and Bush1, I think) have flat out said they would overturn Roe. Alito and Roberts have that in their background, and last term voted to uphold a 2d term prohibition of abortion even where the mother's life is at stake.
I wonder if you appreciate how close Roe is to being history.
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The job of the next president will be to pull us out of the quagmire in the middle east and to stabilize the economy.
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Here I differ with your view that the three candidates would be the same. If McCain is elected we will be in the quagmire 4 more years.
There economic policies are fundamentally different as well. McCain would keep the Bush tax cuts and cut trillions more, at a time when our nation is dangerously in debt. Clinton and Obama would raise taxes, and some of that increase would go to new spending on health care.
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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.
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Here again, McCain's position is dramatically different as recently indicated where he opposed a law which would give women a remedy to sue for equal pay for equal work, on the basis that it would cause lawsuits.
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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.
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You are asserting McCain is flat out lying when he promises to do the opposite.
Seems like a thin reed upon which to sail the ship.