Well, Herman Cain is Over….
He is pro-choice. This is what he said on Piers Morgan last night:
No, it comes down to is, it’s not the government’s role — or anybody else’s role — to make that decision. Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidents, you’re not talking about that big a number. So what I’m saying is, it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to make. Not me as president. Not some politician. Not a bureaucrat. It gets down to that family. And whatever they decide, they decide. I shouldn’t try to tell them what decision to make for such a sensitive decision.”
That is the pro-choice position. Goodbye Herman Cain. Your fifteen minutes are up.
love the Dominoes ad over the screen before the interview…no Godfather’s?
wrong wrong wrong. a friend of mine, and herman cain supporter said “damn right it is not his choice. it is the choice of the new supreme court justices he is going to appoint”
this wont matter. this election is entirely about the SCOTUS
Cain Responds to DL: http://twitter.com/#!/THEHermanCain/status/127066806253916160
LOL, I made up that responds part, but it is his tweet.
“this election is entirely about the SCOTUS”
The problem with right-wing policies is that whenever they’re put in place, it turns vast numbers of people against the GOP. Even in Kansas, the nutjob anti-abortion AG lasted only a couple of years before voters sent him packing.
which is why they seek to put their policies in place through judicial activism and bench legislation. If they replace Bryer and Ginsberg with conservatives…. game over.
“If they replace Bryer and Ginsberg with conservatives…. game over.”
First they would have to quit or die. And which game would be over?
As resilient as Ruth Bader Ginsberg is, i dont see her NOT retiring for another 4-8 years.
and “game over” is a colloquialism for “the other side will get everything they want and we will be shat upon”. As in i feel it in my bones that as soon as the conservatives get a definite edge in the SCOTUS, a challenge to RoeVWade will magically pop up and it will be overturned. so will ever decision that has been a victory for progressivism. they dont try to hide that this is their goal.
No i dont see this as a “game” that’s just what people say.
there’s been a lot of talk about this recently on the feminist sites I read. States have been chipping away at abortion rights in the past few years (fun ways include, “heartbeat” bills, making you see your ultrasound, making doctors read you medically inaccurate statements, and (my favorite) zoning laws that shut down clinics if they dont comply in a matter of days with obscenely specific zonining ordinances like where your bathroom is and what kind of door handles you have). Women’s organizations haven’t been challenging them. Why? because they fear the court already has a conservative edge or by the time the case reaches them it could be even worse. When the court revisted roe they restricted it so the trend would be to continue to do so. States are already getting away with a virtual reversal of women’s rights because of judicial fear.
and the cons whine about liberal judicial activism. They like to do things by dictate so the millions and millions who disagree with their religious based dogma have no recourse.
I didn’t mean to criticize use of “game.” I meant which issue were you worried about. If it’s abortion, bring it on.
Overturning Roe v. Wade throws the question back to the states. I think that once states go back to making abortion illegal, the downfall of the GOP will be right around the corner. While most people have reservations about abortion, the far-right position is held by a small minority. There is no better way of overthrowing a small minority than by applying its nostrums and letting the public revolt.
Geezer, that’s great for politics, but in the meantime women in certain areas of the country will have to do without medical care that their life might depend on unless they can travel to where it’s available.
Indeed, the fall of Soviet communism was supposed to rend the conservative movement; instead, it’s freed them to seek worse things than ever previously imagined.
“in the meantime women in certain areas of the country will have to do without medical care that their life might depend on unless they can travel to where it’s available.”
They should have thought of that before they were born in South Dakota. Seriously, do you really think that even red states would accept laws without exceptions for health of the mother?
“the fall of Soviet communism was supposed to rend the conservative movement; instead, it’s freed them to seek worse things than ever previously imagined.”
That’s debatable; what are they doing that you didn’t imagine?
But I never said it would “rend the movement.” It would destroy abortion as an election issue, just as the fall of communism put that bogeyman to rest for good. Have you noticed how little people care about the — gasp! — communists at the Occupy events?
Geezer: after the shenanigans that went down in Wisconsin? Yes. Yes, I do.
Cain was never planning to be president. He has no campaign in most states. He only wanted national press coverage, so idiots at Faux news would hire him like they did the preacher. Now he can’t even explain his 9 9 9 plan. Delaware has no sales tax, under his ridiculous plan Delaware would automatically have a 9% sales tax on food and everything else we purchase. Stick a fork in him, he’s lost.