[utahagen]

I urge you to reconsider. I agree that McCain's position on embryonic stem cell research is inconsistent (to put it mildly), but McCain would appoint judges who are much more likely to protect (most of) the unborn than the judges Obama would appoint. To paraphrase Voltaire, the best is the enemy of the good.

[Politicalmom]

Sure. I REALLY believe that McCain will nominate conservative judges. He’ll just “maverick” again.

See tagline.

[Candor7]

The issues surrounding this election are much lager than single moral issues, like abortion or stem cell research. The fact is tha America is being accosted by a leftist movement which is liberal socialist evolving towards fascism.

You may vote according to religious or moral values, but you may have missed the genuine issue of the devolution of our Republic into a fascist state. Then those of moral conscience will lose even the right to speak out about it. It will be outlawed as illegal hate speech. Its already happened in Canada.

Our nation will become balkanized into a mosaic of racial and ethnic provinces, administered by government morality police. English will no longer be the language of government. Our military will become so weak that we will no longer be a beacon of freedom and a sheild of protection in the world at large.

So for those who are that directly religious and moralistic, think about the sin of allowing the nation to become without the traditional freedoms which allow us all to worship as we please, and to continue to create a more perfect union of citizens.On balance for me , voting to prevent that is to prevent a greater sin of loss of the freedom tha God gave our nation so we might do good to each other and in the world. Without that freedom the issue of abortion will be irretrievably lost to the Godless.

So which will it be?

This is the context of the greater view, and I would urge all to consider it very carefully.

[CottonBall]

McCain would appoint judges who are much more likely to protect (most of) the unborn

I wish I was as sure as you are. He voted for Gingsburg and already said he wouldn't appoint someone like Alito, who wore his conservatism on his sleeve. As if that's a bad thing.

[Man50D]

I agree that McCain's position on embryonic stem cell research is inconsistent (to put it mildly), but McCain would appoint judges who are much more likely to protect (most of) the unborn than the judges Obama would appoint.

I suggest you think McCain's position on judges through more thoroughly. If he becomes President he will be facing socialist Democrat majority Congress, many of which he has sided on several issues in the past. You're kidding yourself if you think he will nominate Conservative judges given those facts.

To paraphrase Voltaire, the best is the enemy of the good.

To quote Ronald Reagan addressing CPAC in 1975:

“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.”

[politicket]

To paraphrase Voltaire, the best is the enemy of the good.

To paraphrase God,"...lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you."

[TBP]

McCain would appoint judges who are much more likely to protect (most of) the unborn than the judges Obama would appoint.

Maybe not. Remember, he told suppoorters that he would not appoint justices like lito "because that guy wears his conservatism on his sleeve." (And justices like Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and Roberts are more likely to overturn his signature legislative achievement, the McCain-Feingold Anti-Free Speech Act, given an opportunity.

And remember, it was Republicans promising "strict constructionists" who gave us Earl Warren, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, and others like them.

[papertyger]

but McCain would appoint judges who are much more likely to protect (most of) the unborn than the judges Obama would appoint.

Why would McCain waste political capital and start a bruising political fight with Congressional Democrats to get us judges long after we've already served his electoral purposes?