The McCain-Palin ticket may turn out to be the worst unnatural disaster ever to hit U.S. shores. The lies being told by the GOP campaign are like a hurricane's rain drops -- too numerous to count and just as dangerous. Where are these headlines? Lies Batter U.S. / Sarah Cuts a Punishing Path Through the Media / Millions Without the Facts Across the Country. Amid the debris, John McCain's dirty tricks flap in the wind.
McCain-Palin's lies have been hitting us with such frequency and ferocity that we may lost sight of one thing they are not "lying" about: Roe v. Wade. Oh, sure, McCain, Palin, Schmidt & Associates are trying to put lipstick on their extremist views with the same "pretty" words we've heard for decades now, phrases from Palin like "I would choose life" sound a heckuva lot better than saying "If my daughter is raped, her feelings don't matter." But make no mistake: if John McCain is elected together with Cindy's new sister-wife, we can all kiss Roe goodbye.
Move over, Charlie. I have a few questions to ask McCain-Pain [sic] about abortion.
We could force McCain to answer questions like these:
Sen. McCain, you told Pastor Rick Warren that a "baby" is entitled to human rights "at the moment of conception." What about cases of rape or incest, who has more human rights then? The 8-week-old fetus? The 14-year-old child/mother who has been raped by her father? The father/rapist who decides he wants her to have the baby? Oh, are you then saying, senator, that a "pre-born baby" isn't always entitled to human rights?
If it was fair to ask Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis whether he would be in favor of the death penalty if his wife was raped and murdered, certainly it would be fair to ask Palin if she would want to see her daughter jailed if her teenager sought an abortion after being raped.
Or how about this question:
If life begins at conception, Gov. Palin, why don’t good, church-going Christians hold a funeral after a 4-to-8 week miscarriage?
Whatever questions we decide to ask, we must start asking them now. Roe v. Wade hangs by a thread held by four Supreme Court justices: John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. It’s rumored that three of them could be off the bench soon. Souter, who’s been on the court for nearly 18 years, wouldn't mind moving back to his nice little place in New Hampshire. Ginsburg, a cancer survivor, could use a little R and R. And God knows how Stevens, a Ford appointee who was born in 1920, has held on this long. God bless him.
The Palin pick proved that McCain would pander to his party’s base. With a Democratic Senate rubber stamping the Republican president’s nominees (as it is wont to do), the conservatives will be in the majority on the high court, ushering in a post-Roe v. Wade era. It may start slowly at first – with abortions being outlawed only in the most conservative states.
No doubt, different states will have different degrees of punishment for doctors who perform abortions and the women and girls who seek them. Abortion-related ballot measures are on ballots in South Dakota, Colorado and California. What would it be like to live in a country where a "baby" is entitled to human rights "at the moment of conception"?
We need the truth, senator.