Political Punch

Tom Ridge - wasn't he the bush puppet who moved the TERROR WATCH SCALE UP & DOWN. Sorry but all I saw was a willing fool playing gergie boys game going from yellow to orange to red in the lead up to the election. Trust him about as much as I would get in a cage with a tiger who hadn't had a meal for 2 months. these people are the sleeze of politics of all time.

That is not a good enough response from Ridge. The American pro-life voter wants to know that the man that President Elect McCain picks as his VP holds the same values and positions that he has. Something that he, himself, has expressed in the past. We in the pro-life movement would not be pleased with this change of attitude - either you are pro-life or you aren't! If you were pro-choice then, you can't be pro-life now - it isn't that easy! This would be a very, very bad decision for President Elect McCain. We would hope that if approached, Tom Ridge would say no!

If McCain picks ridge, Obama is going to have a hard time winning Pennsylvania.

mrspeel - war is made up of grown humans. They choose to engage in that arena. For a woman to choose to take the life of her child is a completely different issue. To mix the two is a distorted view of reality. We are talking about choosing.. The woman by choosing abortion does get to have a say, the men and women going to war have made a judgment call and so they too are being heard. They may feel differently later on, but then so will many women that choose to end the life of their child. I fully understand many of the reasons women choose to have an abortion, but it doesn't change the fact that morally it is the wrong decision and from my perspective has done so much damage to the moral foundation of the world.

Is it just me or is McCain messing up this whole VP thing. If he picks a right winger now he is accused of pandering, and if he picks an anti abortion guy like Ridge, then either you have a frustrated religious right or a flip flopper.

Melissa, I respect your opinion but I think you're missing a key point. I'm not saying you have to agree but the key question is at what point life begins. If one believes that life begins at conception than your argument about the costs, children flooding the system are irrelevant. You can disagree on when life begins; but nobody can argue that if life begins at conception that we can justify abortion because of the burden the extra children will put on society.

Eyes opening, cast your eyes to google and go to the New Republican online, then type in keywords for search. I don't remember if there was a listing of the entire 48 prospective members, since I read it several days ago. Maybe there was a sample of names of the membership. Thank you for your concern about women's reproductive rights!

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"His proposed judiciary committee has 48 individuals who all have pro-life convictions and will help select supreme court and federal level judges."
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SEMPER PERATES.... OR SOME SUCH.,.. AND HE WASN'T EVEN A MARINE!

SO.......WHO ARE THEY?

Hmm, Yes, according to the New Republic, an Arizona publication.

KAT:

proposed judiciary committee has 48 individuals who all have pro-life convictions and will help select supreme court and federal level judges

So Alexander Solzhenitsyn heard John McCain's story and copied it.

Yep, I bet the Vietnamese guard told a Russian who told his buddy who worked in the Gulag who mentioned it to Solzhenitsyn. LOL. First the Packers now God. What won't he lie about?

HOLY SMOKE! The "cross in the dirt" story doesn't appear in anything McCain said or wrote until 1999 and is does sound very similar to what the Russian writer wrote in 1973.

If Obama did this you people would crawling so far up that only your feet would be visible.

Debra, Ellen Degeneres getting married won't stop McCain's mission of appointing pro-life judges to the Supreme and federal courts. He's unequivocally stated his opposition to Roe vs. Wade and has already selected 48 candidates, all who share his views, to his judiciary committee to appoint judges to the supreme and federal courts. If only the marriage of Ellen and Portia could portend continued reproductive choice for women!

McCain has been unequivocal in his position to overturn Roe vs Wade. His proposed judiciary committee has 48 individuals who all have pro-life convictions and will help select supreme court and federal level judges. As Tom Ridge asserts, his pro-abortion is inconsequential (to McCain's mission).

You can be a Republican and be pro choice...I have voted Rep, 80% of the time, but I still believe a woman has a right to choose. We'll never go back to pre Roe v. Wade days, not in today's sexualized culture. We never turn back the hands of time, just as we won't go back to the draft either. We're inching closer and closer to changing marriage laws and once that sticks, we won't change that back either. Hell Ellen Degeneres got married yesterday.

Mike, you are absolutely wrong. There are misguided individuals who go off the deep end. The Republican Party does not condone the acts that you describe. To the contrary 99.99% of us condemn these acts; and want the perpetrators to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

dl, I was only correcting the notion that abortions had gone up during these past 7 1/2 years. I gave NO conclusions or assumptions as to why that occurred. I just stated the fact.

Now as to my comment to Willem van Oranje, obviously individuals who faithfully practice abstinence cannot become pregnant. So to say that abstinence has a 100% failure rate is absolutely false. It is the only 100% fool proof method of pregnancy prevention. What he should have said was something on the order of abstinence only education is just as ineffective as "safe sex" education.

Ridge cannot be a real Republican until he recognizes the right to life of everyone except Democratic politicians (who Republicans think its ok to send anthrax to), or Obstetricians (who Republicans think its ok to blow the brains out of), or Unitarians (who the Republicans think its ok to murder in front of their kids).

Lots of talk Hillary is back in play because Obama is in real trouble this early.

Even Kerry was leading by near 10 points around this time 4 years ago.

It may be over for Obama. Heck, he was not really a credible candidate. He was created by the media like Paris & Britney.

If McCain chooses Mitt Romney, Michigan Colorado & Nevada may be out of play for Barack Obama. Throw in Florida and it's Game, Set and Match.