Bush won this debate with one group only...

[bling bling]

(not counting the pinhead pundits who get paid to say Bush won)

And that is with the single issue voters who vote the anti-choice candidate.

But what anti-choice voters don't seem to ever consider the fact that that Roe v. Wade has survived for thirty (30) years regardless of whether a Democrat or Republican is President.

Most amazingly, the current President has had a Republican administration, a Republican Senate, a Republican Congress, and a Republican majority Supreme Court. If the President wanted to do something for their anti-choice supporters, they would have done it.

Other than that one issue, anybody who says Bush won is beyond comprehension.

[Burma Jones]

1. The Republicans will never let Roe v Wade get overturned

It's their biggest vote getter among the folks that would be voting Democrat if they had any sense.

[LuminousX]

2. Yep...

They need to keep this issue alive until another divisive issue can be found.

[sallyseven]

4. I remember when they use to use

Ted Kennedy as the whipping boy to shore up their base. Use to scare little old ladies and make them give money to the repuks. It was awful.

[osaMABUSh]

3. Great point: they need roe v wade

[secular_warrior]

5. Bush spokesperson Nicole Devenish said Bush doesn't want to ban abortion

Chris Matthews asked Devenish "Will the President seek to ban abortion?" and she said NO. She said she doesn't think the country is ready, then went on to flip flop and stutter, then said Bush supports a 'culture of life' or something like that...

The Republicans need abortion because it riles up the fundie base. They will never try to ban abortion outright, at least not now. In a perfect scenario w/o Dem opposition the Repubs would still say they are being opposed, and would chew around the edges so they'll have something to throw to the fundies every year. Then when they've regulated abortion so much that it is nearly impossible to have one, they will move to ban it, but they would've juiced the issue for as much as they could've. That scenario would never happen, of course, because there is real opposition. So the GOP will probably juice it forever, choosing to fight the battle on imaginary issues like "partial birth abortion".