17 October 2008

Did McCain just lose any remaining Hillary diehards?

When John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, it was an obvious ploy to appeal to the disgruntled supporters of Hillary Clinton who were bitter over the fact that their candidate had not won the Democratic nomination (not even for vice president).

If there were any of those Clinton supporters left who were still leaning towards McCain to get their revenge on the Democratic Party machine, I suspect that their numbers went down after Wednesday night's debate. At least, I hope so.

Since that final McCain-Obama debate of this campaign season, I've spent a lot of time replaying the footage and digesting it all (hence my delay in writing about it). McCain said a lot of disturbing things during that debate. But I think that what raised my blood pressure the most was his response to Obama's explanation that he (Obama) would support a ban on late-term abortions "as long as there's an exception for the mother's health and life."

Pretty reasonable, right? Host over parasite, in biological terms.

Well, apparently not to some people.

Responding to Obama's comment, McCain made a mockery of women's health.

Making quotation marks in the air with his fingers, McCain said, "Health of the mother. You know, that's been stretched by the pro-abortion movement, in America, to mean almost anything. That's -- that's the extreme pro-abortion position, quote, 'health'."

Wow.

So McCain places such little importance on women's health that he believes it's an extremist issue, and something to be ridiculed in quotation. He wants you pregnant and, if need be, dead, if that's what it takes to bring another unwanted child into this world.

Who really holds the extreme position here?

I wonder if McCain would feel the same way if his own daughter's life were at risk from a pregnancy.

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