This is getting ridiculous. Most people are not pro-life. Choosing a pro-life candidate may lose the middle.
I really wish they would just ban forever partial-birth abortion and stop making every election about abortion.
McCain - pick whoever will get you elected. Don’t let the abortion issue cost you the election and allow the government to steal my wealth.
Actually, a majority ARE pro-life. Why do you think the Democrat politicians are even now planning how to disguise their pro-abort intentions at the Denver convention. They need to speak out of one side of their mouths to the dedicated leftist moonbats, and out of the other side of their mouths to ordinary people in the middle.
Bush won two elections as a pro-life candidate. And the blue dog Democrats only won in 2006 by pretending to be conservative on this issue. Casey, for instance.
Your numbers are wrong. 50 to 70 percent are prolife “except in cases of rape and incest”
Yes, they did outlaw partial birth infanticide - and Obama promises to repeal that ban (and any state restrictions on abortion)as his first act in office.
It's the left that has made elections be about abortion via judicial activism - getting its way through unelected courts. We, the mere citizens and voters, have had to battle back tediously for decades to try to respond to the impact of these rulings. Same sex marriage is just another example of the same thing.
McCain picking a pro-abortion VP would be a serious error.
Wrong on two counts. First, the general run of polling for the past decade shows a slight pro-life majority in general, and decisive majorities for the pro-life side when you ask specific questions about things like PBA and parental notification requirements. Second, having pro-life VPs and being a pro-life Pres candidate have never lost the middle before. "The middle", a somewhat murky and ill-defined term anywise, don't care much about abortion either way. Abortion isn't a defining term for them, and a pro-life VP isn't going to lose them now any more than it did for Reagan, Bush I, or Bush II.
good point.
And we have elected “pro-life” Presidents like Reagan and George H.W. Bush, who then immediately appoint pro-choice Justices to the Supreme Court (O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, and Souter).
If McCain can produce opinion polls that shows that Tom Ridge can carry Pennsylvania and Michigan, I hope that he will choose Ridge.
If there is no proof in the polls, then he can go with someone else, like Romney.