“Welcome to FR, trollie.”
This “trollie” has been involved in conservative causes (pro-life, pro-gun, property rights etc), financially and in person, for years. Nice try at a put-down, though.
“John McCain is infinitely more pro-life than Barry O ...”
By infinitely, do you mean that the number of unborn babies aborted during a McCain administration will be zero? If not, then “infinitely more pro-life” is not the correct way to describe McCain’s position. Past, present and future murdered preborn babies have not, are not and will not find protection from campaign slogans which do not reflect the Senator’s past statements as well as past and current legislative record on the issue. Laws, law enforcement and prosecution of abortionists will protect babies. McCain was on record as supporting Roe vs. Wade. Now he has changed his mind (though his wife recently claims that he hasn’t) but he still won’t add his name as a co-sponsor to a Senate bill which will give the pre-born protection.
“Anyone who won’t vote for McCain because he’s not perfectly pro-life is an idiot. Barry O will put enough pro-abort judges on our courts to ensure that babies continue to be murdered on a whim for the next 50 years.”
I’m not supporting McCain because he isn’t pro-life AT ALL. If you’re supporting him simply because he says that he is pro-life, or because his campaign or the media says that he is pro-life, that says a lot about your level of wisdom and discernment. Have you even bothered to look at the list of (alleged) conservative SCOTUS judges nominated by Republicans in the last 40 years, such as:
Harry Blackmun (Nixon) - authored Roe vs. Wade
John Paul Stevens (Ford) - liberal
Sandra Day O’Connor (Reagan) - voted to strike down state abortion restrictions and anti-sodomy laws
Anthony Kennedy (Reagan) - similar to O’Connor
David Souter (GHW Bush) - sided with conservatives for a couple of years, considered a “home run for conservatism”, then decided he was a liberal.
Roberts (GW Bush) - ?
Alito (GW Bush) - ?
Even if there were a Republican Senate starting in 2009, this record does not bode well for the future. Of course, McCain will most likely NOT have a Republican Senate, so the idea that he will be nominating original intent, strict constructionist, pro-life justices is absolute fantasy.