"He cannot and did not advocate overturning Roe."
Really? The GOP has advocated a Constitutional Ammendment banning abortion, right? He ran as a GOP candidate, right?
McCAIN [to Bush]: Do you believe in the exemption, in the case of abortion, for rape, incest, and life of the mother?
BUSH: Yeah, I do.
McCain: [But you] support the pro-life plank [in the Republican Party platform]?
BUSH: I do.
McCAIN: So, in other words, your position is that you believe there’s an exemption for rape, incest and the life of the mother, but you want the platform that you’re supposed to be leading to have no exemption. Help me out there, will you?
BUSH: I will. The platform doesn’t talk about what specifically should be in the constitutional amendment. The platform speaks about a constitutional amendment. It doesn’t refer to how that constitutional amendment ought to be defined.
McCAIN: If you read the platform, it has no exceptions.
BUSH: John, I think we need to keep the platform the way it is. This is a pro-life party.
McCAIN: Then you are contradicting your platform.
Source: GOP Debate on the Larry King Show Feb 15, 2000
I can give you quotes where Bush has said the platform is not what he believes.
My opinion of the so called platform is the same.
I do not pay the slightest attention to it. It is bogus and a political piece of crap. As is the Democrat platform.
You cannot use it as a lever. You have tried before and failed every time.
That is why I believe these planks should be removed.
About half of the party is either pro-choice or neutral on this issue, perhaps much more in the neutral category.
If you were to garner enough support for your side on this issue, you would only succeed in fragging the party and losing the entire issue.
Allow this to proceed as it has. Changes are coming gradually and are documented and real.
If you get aggressive again, the exact opposite effect will occur AGAIN!
Learn from the history of this topic. Realize that you cannot force changes like this. If you continue to pursue this aggressive posturing, you will lose. You will also put the issue back twenty years and eliminate all the progress made thusfar.
I can guarantee it.