John McCain and Abortion
We've posted in detail about McCain's horrible history (and potential future) with reproductive justice issues. But there's always need for more reminders.
Dahlia Lithwick at Slate says McCain is trying to "pull a Jessica Seinfeld."
So the candidate is doing exactly what Mrs. Jerry Seinfeld did in her popular cookbook, Deceptively Delicious. He's sneaking a little of his bad-tasting reproductive rights stance into the meatloaf of his candidacy--not by hiding it, but by trading on his reputation as a maverick. Seinfeld's contention was that if your kids don't like asparagus, you should just whirl it up in the blender and bake it into some meatloaf. The children won't know the difference until it's too late.
Make sure to check out the whole piece. Even if it doesn't tell you anything you don't know about McCain and choice, it will make you hungry for meatloaf. (Okay, that's probably just me. But seriously, read it.)
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Ha! I have a faux-meatloaf in the oven as I read this, so I was already craving meatloaf (or at least the meatless kind).
Does hoping McPrick dies before the election make me an asshole? :P
noodlegirl - I hope not, or I'm in trouble too.
The somewhat delicious dilemma McCain's in does kind of call into question his ability to actually live to see the end of his term - What if he picks Tom Ridge, or Joe Lieberman, or even Carli Fiorina or Condi Rice as his VP? They're all pro-choice, which some people think is a slap in the face to the rest of his party. Fiorina's already caused enough trouble for the GOP by suggesting that all women deserve access to birth control, an assertion that left McCain stammering and spluttering on video on his bus later that day.
Granted, it's not the VP's job to make policy, but they can sure as hell overturn something unsavory if they have to assume the presidency because McCain croaked.
Wouldn't that just be counterproductive for McCain?
And if he goes with a Romney or a Pawlenty, who don't know too much outside of their own narrow areas of expertise (business and...um, not-infrastructure, respectively), then there's bound to be a backlash on some other grounds. Two obscenely wealthy guys talking about the economy? Pass. And, thinking nationally, Tim Pawlenty who?
The only real threat would be Sarah Palin or Kay Bailey Hutchinson, and they seem to be longshots at this point.