Misperceptions About McCain's Abortion Stance

NPR ^ | 2/3/08

[TBP]

Sure, McCai’s pro-life. Why am I not buying that?

Maybe it’s stem -cell research. Maybe it’s his public statement that he wouldn’t appoint anyone like Alito. Or maybe it’s that I just think he’ll say or do anything to get elected, and I don’t think he’s honest.

He’s made a point of pride out of screwing conservatives every chance he’s gotten. Why should we believe that he’ll turn down the opportunity to poke us in the eyes on this issue?

[Brices Crossroads]

“Conservatives will not be fooled again by McCain’s rhetoric.”

Wait...Romney is the one with the rhetoric. First, he runs for office twice in 1994 and 2002 promising that he would preserve and protect the right to choose, then a year before seeking the nomination of the prolife party at age 59, he has an epiphany and decides he is prolife (how convenient). Then the next year in 2006, his last year in office, he collaborates with Ted Kennedy to get mandatory health coverage in Massachusetts, which expands taxpayer funded abortions ($50 copay) to all women making salaries at 300% of the poverty level and below (up to $32,000 for a single woman with no dependents; more if she is married and has children)

Mitt Romney’ s rhetoric and his record are proabortion, and these publicly funded $50 copay abortions cost him the NRLC endorsement and are the real reason why evangelicals are not supporting him.

[Mr. Brightside]

McCain has a less than perfect pro-life voting record.

But at least he DOES have a pro-life voting record, as opposed to Mitt Romney.

[Apparatchik]

McCain is on the wrong side of enough issues that his position on abortion doesn't matter one iota.

And thus, with such hyperbole and hysteria, you have negated an issue that is important to many Conservative voters. Oh, it's gettin' goood!

[the808bass]

you might want to read up on it since your the one with the problem

Your mom

Thought I'd respond at the same level of discourse.

[the808bass]

walls are kind of scary to someone who knows history

I have a fence around my backyard and it doesn't scare me a bit. Keeps the neighborhood hooligans out of my pool.

[billmor]

#29 “Conservatives absolutely must stop McCain even if it means enduring a Clinton 2 Administration.’

Wrong...If we do not vote and allow Clinton or Obama to win by default, we will have 2 more liberals on the Supreme Court and it could be another 20-30 years before there is any chance to overturn Roe v Wade..We must all vote to stop the Dems and get our man into the WH who will make the right appointments PLUS we need a Rep Congress to back him up...

[TommyDale]

Conservatives are concerned about a lot of issues with McCain.
The abortion issue is not the only one.

[TinaJeannes]

Check out Krystols op ed in New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/opinion/04kristol.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[onja]

You shouldn’t throw stones.

It is completely and utterly absurd to say that Hillary and McCain are for all practical purposes the same. Yes, some McCain supporters tend to whitewash some of his genuine faults. However, it is nothing like the disinformation being propagated that McCain is a leftist or communist or Hillaryesque figure. Clearly, and beyond all reasonable doubt, he is not a leftist. Sure, he is not inherently loyal to the party or conservatives, but don’t paint him as something he is not.