Letters to the Editor
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I think the Democrats would prosper by running on abortion.
It would get Hillary's older white female base back into the party. And it would gut McCain's moderate image. The anti abortion crew is becoming more and more of a fringe radical group. Portraying them as terrorists would put McCain in a lot of trouble.
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So what?
Democrats have lost 7 of the 10 Presidential elections. I don't recall the Supreme Court being the issue that put Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton over the top.
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Of course
He'll never say the word abortion if he's not forced to. It's a complete loser in the general election, for him. We're going to have to push it in his face and make him eat it.
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Another genius writing for salon
I guess Alex Koppelman is yet another media dolt under the impression that John McCain is a "moderate" well, because the media says so. McCain is a far-right war-mongering fascist, just like he was in the 80's when he was carrying Reagan's water and in the last few years carrying Bush's.
I wonder what the qualifications are for getting a gig writing for salon? Lucid thinking and adherence to fact clearly are not amongst them.
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I wish McCain had never been a POW
That way he'd be easier for me to hate. Almost everything he and his party stand for, I disagree with, but I just can't hate the man.
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Funny
Glenn Greenwald also wrote a piece on McCain embracing executive power and complaining that the judiciary is too strong.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/07/
mccain/index.html
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@ - liquiditytrap71
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Alex is trying to say that his false image of being a moderate will be blown of the water if he actually has to discuss where he stands on abortion.
Once McCain's policies are actually examined for what they are, most people will come to a similar conclusion as yours.
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@ theholygoof
Perhaps I'm wrong, but Alex seems to be saying that McCain would only be trying to appease the right wing. He is the right wing. He won't be throwing the right wing a bone, he'll be throwing them blood-rare steaks, on abortion and everything else. He has been appeasing media people to get elected, and they have fallen for it repeatedly.
Of course, I hope its a moot point.
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Run on Iraq, not on abortion
Getting out of Iraq immediately is a clear contrast to McCain's Century Of Explosions. Abortion is a sad issue, no matter which side you take, and it is a potential Civil War issue in the USA.
P.S. Nice plant, Alex!
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Tightrope
John McCain does not have to walk any sort of tightrope at all.
With the ubiquitious free passes that the media have given him, even in the light of multiple contradictory and even wrong comments he has made, John McCain will not receive five minutes of scrutiny, from now until November.
Instead the media will further obsess over Barak Obama's mail carrier's politics and whether or not he is wearing a flag pin today.
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No -- MacCain really is a remarkable moderate on judicial selection, compared to Obama.
McCain was one of the Gang of 14, Obama wasn't. Obama joined the far-left of his party in voting against the nomination of Chief Justice Roberts.
Obama is the radical on judges, not McCain.