Quite the opposite in fact.
This is not our proudest moment.
Thanks for those responses.
I don’t honestly believe the “hypothesis” this poster put forward, which seems a bit conspiratorial for my taste, but I’m interested in the general politics involved - all of it. McCain has made some contradictory statements about abortion, and to be honest it looks from the outside like many conservatives are in a serious quandary over this issue, which I think the thread reflects - glass houses and personal responsibility, abstinence and birth control, pregnancy and marriage, work and family. I don’t think that’s a mark of poor politics, incidentally; the heartfelt arguments are how any of us get anywhere, in my opinion.
Ironically, the Republican ticket may have put gender on the map every bit as much as the Democratic one did - maybe moreso. I for one didn’t see that coming, but I don’t subscribe to either party.