Roe and McCain's SCOTUS Nominees
I doubt that I would agree with Ross Douthat on much. But on this point we are in complete agreement.
Roberts and Alito are the latest salvos in the GOPper agenda of putting the government in America's bedroom and forcing it out of the board room. I feel it is about as close to a guarantee one can get in politics that McCain will nominate judges in this same vein. And lest we forget, John Paul Stevens is really old!
Douthat thinks this is a primary reason to vote for McCain. This is where I disagree! I think this is one of the most important reasons to vote for the Democratic nominee no matter who s/he is!
...[They say] that there's little reason to think that the Senator from Arizona will put an anti-Roe Justice on the Court, so a vote for McCain isn't really a vote against abortion anyway. I think they are mistaken on this point, just as I think that Larison is mistaken when he suggests that Roberts and Alito would vote to uphold Roe, and I suspect that pro-lifers who choose this election cycle to give up on the GOP would end up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Roberts and Alito are the latest salvos in the GOPper agenda of putting the government in America's bedroom and forcing it out of the board room. I feel it is about as close to a guarantee one can get in politics that McCain will nominate judges in this same vein. And lest we forget, John Paul Stevens is really old!
Douthat thinks this is a primary reason to vote for McCain. This is where I disagree! I think this is one of the most important reasons to vote for the Democratic nominee no matter who s/he is!
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