[Rhodes22-list] Herb's rant.

[Brad Haslett]

Rummy,

I'm no expert on McCain's positions but since he's against "waterboarding" I
assume that applies to the unborn as well.

Brad

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:08 AM, <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:

> Your misrepresentation of his stand sucks Stan, and is unbecoming to
> "intelligent debate". You can do better.
>
> Herb, speaking of being able to do better.............just where the hell
> does McCain stand? After reading as much as I could find, I'm still
>  confused.
>
> Rummy
>
>
> Misperceptions About McCain's Abortion Stance
> by _Julie  Rovner_
> (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101102)  (NPR)
>
>
> Many Republican voters, however, seem to believe, incorrectly, that the
> current Republican front-runner, Arizona Sen. John McCain, supports
> abortion
> rights, too.
> The misperception is interesting, considering that McCain has not
> attempted
> to keep his pro-life views a secret. Here's how he put it on an appearance
> last  year on NBC's Meet the Press:
> "I have stated time after time after time that Roe v Wade was a bad
> decision, that I support a woman — the rights of the unborn — that I have
> fought  for
> human rights and human dignity throughout my entire political career,"
> McCain said. "To me, it's an issue of human rights and human dignity."
> And while now former candidate Fred Thompson, the former senator from
> Tennessee, won the coveted endorsement from the National Right to Life
>  Committee,
> McCain's voting record on the issue is just fine, says David O'Steen,  the
> group's executive director.
> "He's been very consistent; he hasn't changed his position," O'Steen says.
> He
>  says that his group has supported McCain in every one of his senate
> races.
> "We've always considered him pro-life," he says.
> Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, says her group has
> always considered McCain pro-life as well. And it's not just abortion, she
> says.
> "He voted against family planning, he voted against the freedom of access
> to
> clinic entrances — that was about violence against women in clinics,"
> Keenan
> says, adding, "He voted against funding for teen pregnancy-prevention
> programs,  and making sure that abstinence only was medically accurate.
> This is very,
> very  extreme."
> Yet in Florida's GOP primary on Jan. 29, McCain won 45 percent of
> Republican
> voters who said abortion should be legal. That's nearly twice the total of
> former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who used to be pro-choice, but now
> says
> he has changed his mind. And Giuliani, who says he still is pro-choice,
> received  just 19 percent of those pro-choice voters.
> NARAL's Keenan thinks it's because voters see McCain splitting with
> Republicans on so many other issues, they assume he must split with them
> when it
> comes to abortion as well.
> "I think it comes back to that moderate maverick image that he's tried to
> portray," Keenan says. "But when you peel the onion back, the record shows
> that
> this is a guy who's been very anti-choice since he entered the U.S. House
> of
> Representatives back in 1983."
> Those pro-choice McCain voters may also remember the very public feud
> McCain
> has had with the National Right to Life Committee. But that argument
> wasn't
> over  abortion, says the NRLC's O'Steen; it was over the campaign finance
> measure that  McCain sponsored with Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, a
> Democrat.
> "The McCain-Feingold Act limited the ability of non-PACS [political action
> committees] to even mention the name of a candidate within 30 days of a
> primary,  or 60 days of a general election," O'Steen says.
> In other words, the dispute was a freedom of speech issue.
> McCain's pro-life record isn't totally spotless: He did vote in favor of
> expanding federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. But both
> pro-choice
> and pro-life groups say that if McCain becomes the Republican nominee,
> they'll
> work hard to make sure voters know what his abortion position really  is.
>
>
>
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