WTF is wrong with Fred Thompson? He is self destructing...all he had to do is leave it alone!
Baloney! Quit reacting to some writer's willfully distorted interpretation and read the transcript.
Or he could have said: I will consider supporting an amendment if we can’t get Roe v. Wade overturned. That would have avoided a lot of problems.
The “states rights” Confrederates keep telling us how this doesn’t matter because the amendment will never pass. Well then why oppose it? If it will never pass then what does he lose by supporting it? The votes of baby-killers, that’s what. Well good luck getting those baby-killer votes because he won’t get conservative pro-life votes this way.
All he had to do is say he would support it if the congress makes it happen, but that it is not the most effective means to an end. Instead, he stepped in it.
IMO, he started self destructing when he gave the ‘back hand’ to James Dobson, and ergo the millions who love him.
“...all he had to do is leave it alone!”
And be a sissy panderer like Rudy Romney? I’m glad he told us he’s for giving states the right to disembowel babies. Now those “pro-lifers” who support him will have to make a decision: Do you remain pro-life or change to pro-choice in order to be hitlery?
“WTF is wrong with Fred Thompson? He is self destructing...all he had to do is leave it alone!”
If you are against abortion, then you can see that the Republican Platform has been and is only giving lip-service to the issue since Roe v Wade. The plank in the platform was political, and was in no way intended to actually do anything about the issue, which is why nothing has been accomplished.
This is the right stance for pro-lifers. At least now it is proposed to be handled state-by-state where there is a chance to attain at least some success. One step at a time.