St McCain flip-flops on abortion:

[smoogatz]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/19/mccain-abortion/

Because, you know, he loves him some fundie now.

[still_one]

1. mccain was ALWAYS against abortion

[smoogatz]

4. Except when he was for it:

McCain in 1999:

I’d love to see a point where it is irrelevant, and could be repealed because abortion is no longer necessary. But certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to illegal and dangerous operations."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/mccain082499.htm

McCain today:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask one question about abortion. Then I want to turn to Iraq. You’re for a constitutional amendment banning abortion, with some exceptions for life and rape and incest.

MCCAIN: Rape, incest and the life of the mother. Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So is President Bush, yet that hasn’t advanced in the six years he’s been in office. What are you going to do to advance a constitutional amendment that President Bush hasn’t done?

MCCAIN: I don’t think a constitutional amendment is probably going to take place, but I do believe that it’s very likely or possible that the Supreme Court should — could overturn Roe v. Wade, which would then return these decisions to the states, which I support.

STEPHANOPOULOS: And you’d be for that?

MCCAIN: Yes, because I’m a federalist. Just as I believe that the issue of gay marriage should be decided by the states, so do I believe that we would be better off by having Roe v. Wade return to the states. And I don’t believe the Supreme Court should be legislating in the way that they did on Roe v. Wade.

[Mend]

12. years before this, when McCain was asked what he would do if

his teenage daughter became pregnant, he answered that the matter would be between his wife and his daughter. The righties howled and he back-tracked but that was his honest unrehearsed nonpolitical response. What a whore he is.

[Warpy]

9. Pretty much

He softened his message somewhat when he was appearing before groups of women and in the northeast, but his voting record is that of a hard line antichoicer.

[still_one]

11. That exactly was my point

in 2000 when bushco ran, they tried to nuance his position on abortion, but there was no doubt wehre he stood, and that was against it

[Roxy66]

2. I think he is a phoney...why the love-fest on the MSM?

[BruceMcF]

6. They are herd beasts. Having adopted him ...

... as a loveable maverick and proof that they don't have a liberal bias, any single media outlet is going to be loathe to drop him, which will be used by the wingnuts as proof of their liberal bias.

[Virginia Dare]

3. McCain will say and do whatever he thinks it takes...

to get himself elected. He is the biggest whore in politics.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. Cracked actor, who has received the kiss of death from Shrub.

http://www.alternet.org/story/28266/

[KharmaTrain]

13. You Forgot This...

:hi:

[orpupilofnature57]

14. Shrub looks like mussolini , Mc Inane looks like Dr Evil ! I forgot

[Karmageddon]

7. damn those pesky courts, doing their job again

And I don’t believe the Supreme Court should be legislating in the way that they did on Roe v. Wade.
So John, you don't believe that the Supreme Court should do their job?
Maybe we should just disband the courts completely, not to mention Congress, and give complete and total control to the president. The way the republicans have been acting lately, that appears to be their goal. I hope they'll be happy about that when the lose the presidency in '08 and have no power at all.

[teach1st]

8. Which is it?

McCain(now)supports a constitutional amendment outlawing most abortion, but he's for Roe v. Wade returning to the states because he's a federalist.

So, he's for states rights when he doesn't agree with Supreme Court rulings, but he'll roll over the states in the case of an amendment he agrees with?

[Ilsa]

10. I wonder: if MSM knew what I thought about McCain, and believed

millions of people are out there like me, if they'd stop giving him free campaign time. I told my husband this morning who was watching him that McCain isn't worth my time listening to any more. I refuse to watch him.