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.
Whatever.
NEXT!
Yes. Under McCain-Feingold we find ourselves under the state's heavy thumb of oppression. Why, we can't even post our views on the internet, send out political flyers, buy radio airtime, or do hardly anything at all. Ok, sarcasm off.
Seriously, I don't agree with all the details of CFR, but it's hardly the attack on our liberty that you claim. It was a misguided pragmatic effort to change the way we conduct presidential election campaigns. It ain't a bloody gulag.
I don't either .. and I think his voting record might show something contrary to what he's saying.
... from the Gang of 14 leader no less. What a schmuck.
>>>>McCain's Pro-Life record is solid.
What about the lives of all the documents on the POWs he shredded?
Those lives don't count?
No doubt.
I will never vote for this asshat.
Heh heh. Getting the campaign in gear.
NARAL didn't have to shove it's viewpoint down the throat of Rudy. Instead, they gave him an award for his continuing support of their agenda.
So what's the point of McCain's pander?
Gee, maybe because Rudy's pander on this subject (claiming to want to appoint strict construtionists) has worked so well to date?
I can't tell, did he just do a dodge or a weave?
Message to McCain: I don't TRUST you!
The worm is getting desperate!
I don't think he is either. With all the crap he's pulled in the past, to me this is nothing but a bunch of pandering.
Only an uninformed fool would believe he's a "straight talker".
Well I think hes figuring out the weakest link rudy has and running on it-kinda telling really;)
even if it is obvious pandering!
Translation: McCain wants conservatives to vote for him.
My, my, my. He's held office since 1982 and hasn't lifted a finger to get rid of RvW. Why should we believe that he'll do it now?
Any day now, JR will post a poll along the lines of "will you vote for the old crazy guy with the big R..." etc. I'm pretty sure the big R candidate will still get something close to a plurality of Freeper support.
What has GWB done to get rid of RvW in the last 6 years? Truth is, no one can really get rid of it except the USSC.
Just so you know, I think Giuliani has always thought that Roe was a bad decision. (Constitutionally, that is.)
ML/NJ
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