Posted on 02/18/2007 6:16:38 PM PST by RWR8189
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain (news, bio, voting record), looking to improve his standing with the party's conservative voters, said Sunday the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.
"I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned," the Arizona senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting states.
McCain also vowed that if elected, he would appoint judges who "strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States and do not legislate from the bench."
The landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade gave women the right to choose an abortion to terminate a pregnancy. The Supreme Court has narrowly upheld the decision, with the presence of an increasing number of more conservative justices on the court raising the possibility that abortion rights would be limited.
Social conservatives are a critical voting bloc in the GOP presidential primaries.
McCain's campaign also announced early Sunday that he had been endorsed by former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, who had been considering his own bid for the White House, and former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, who failed in his bid for the Republican nomination in 1996.
Keating told the crowd that McCain is the "only candidate who is a true-blue, Ronald Reagan conservative."
McCain was scheduled to attend a rally promoting an abstinence program Sunday evening.
McCain has strong name recognition and the largest network of supporters in South Carolina. That backing comes in part from his staunch support for the Iraq war, something on which he focused a day earlier in Iowa. But it's the same state that dealt a crushing blow to his presidential aspirations in 2000.
McCain is trying to build support among conservatives after a recent rebuke from Christian leader James Dobson, who said he wouldn't back McCain's presidential bid. Conservatives question McCain's opposition to a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. He opposes same-sex marriage, but says it should be regulated by the states.
This is same guy that stomped on your First Amendment rights to free speech with McCain-Feingold...would you buy a used car from him ???
This guy reminds me of a used car salesman.....will tell you anything to get elected....
Its obvious he's trying to sell to the conservative side of the republican party....but I'm not buying.
McCain's Pro-Life record is solid. He also get's the war on terror. For all his failings as a conservative, we could do worse...
R v W should most definitely be overturned. Murder is a criminal problem and belongs in the jurisdiction of the states. The Federal government should neither mandate abortion nor forbid it except in strictly Federal jurisdictions.
Ok- so McCain has one issue. Now how about that fact that he's nuts?
He's getting desperate now.
Exactly - it only becomes an issue when he runs for president and has done nothing in between.
"Why, this just proves what an evil insane bastard McCain is. The more good strong positions he takes, the more it simply proves that he can't be trusted!"
[McCain hater sarcasm off]
Too little and too late. Sorry John.
I still have my 1st Amendment free speech rights. No one has stomped on them.
I mean, hyperbole is not really our friend.
don't get your knickers in a knot - every one sees through McCain (and your guy) as insincere and saying what they think conservatives want to hear.
Well, he is right about that.
It's certainly one way to try and get the Media to pay attention to him again.
He can say that until the cows come home if he wants to. The only way he gets my vote if it's a choice between him and a Democrat and I don't see that happening.
I mean, hyperbole is not really our friend.
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Not some of them -- READ McCain-Feingold.
***L@@K at ME! I'm running too!***
"NARAL still wants to shove it's viewpoint down the throat of the public and so do pro-lifers. Neither wish to allow the public to have it's voice heard."
On the contrary, if Roe v Wade is overturned the decision for abortion would go to the States where it most likely would be voted on in ALL 50 states,which is a far more democratic way of deciding then giving the decision to a handful of black robed activists !!!
LOL!
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