Vice Presidents often become Presidents. That’s why it matters.
Dan Calabrese has a mistaken notion of his own importance. McCain used him to float a trial balloon, and Dan thinks it was a slip.
He will pick a vice president he thinks can help him govern, and whom he thinks will be prepared to take over as president if necessary. That person’s view on abortion is irrelevant to anything a McCain Administration would do to actually impact life in this country.
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One heartbeat away could impact life or death for millions of tiny beating hearts of the unborn...
Without a commitment to the principles of the Declaration of Independence - namely the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - America is a meaningless geographical mass.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, John Adams and James Madison chose this same "curious hill" to die on, if need be.
What is more important and essential than unborn life to Dan Calabrese? His boyfriend's manicure?
Picking a veep is like checking the inflation of your spare tire. It doesn’t matter at all, unless you have to use it.
Now let’s see, which would be more disastrous for the unborn — elect McCain with a pro-choice VP, or allow Obama to be elected and let him be the one to choose Supreme Court nominees? Gosh, I just don’t know. /s
If Mr. Dan doesn’t think this is important, he is out of touch...by a country mile.
The conservative base, having failed to nominate someone more to their liking such as Fred Thompson, is now being asked to stomach McCain as their standard bearer. As such, the base wants him to affirm their relevance by symbolically tipping his hat to them on the social issue that concerns conservatives most.
And for all you "personel responsibility folks...
No matter who the president is, abortion law remains largely unchanged, and the only thing that stops abortions from taking place is the moral fortitude of the women in question.
All the pro-choice options mentioned are lousy on other things as well.
If McCain hadn’t spent his career screwing conservatives then we’d be more willing to trust him on things like this.
whoever wrote this is a moron. VP’s can become President. It matters a great deal.
What? Of course it matters! John McCain will be the oldest president ever elected. We need to have a VP we can feel comfortable with stepping into the position if McCain has a health issue.
Plus the VP will probably be the assumed standard bearer of the party in 4 or 8 years.
I'm just a country boy, and not a writer at the prestigious North Star Writers Group, so everyone reading this should take the following with a grain of salt.
The logical time for the "Leading Conservative movement types" to apply political pressure on MrMcain is before he makes his decision. If these "types" of people (whatever that means) hold any sway over political decisions in the USA they would be very foolish indeed to wait until after the decision was made, to make their displeasure known.
Even an old country boy like me can understand this concept.
Maybe I'm just not sufficiently educated into the "nuances" of political thinking, and therefore can't understand why this writer would be "shocked, shocked" to see social conservatives attempting to participate in politics the same way other US Citizens are doing (you know, other citizens like this writer).
The writer's verbal assaults and down-the-nose look at these "types" of people must surely indicate he has nothing but the most friendly intentions toward them, and is merely, and gently, trying to "enlighten" them to his point of view.
I'm probably just not enlightened enough to see his friendly intentions shining through his words of ridicule.
“The pro-life movement has been focused for a generation on electing pro-life presidents, vice presidents, legislators and drain commissioners. None of it has changed abortion law in America.”
Well, Dan, I guess it’s all over then and the Republicans should just accept it and become a pro-choice party!/s
Political expediency over principle is what has gotten the party in the mess it’s in. Throwing out what few principles the party still stands for isn’t going to fix that.