PLEASE...make sure that EVERYONE reads this article. As a registered Repulican, McCain made me go the other way. I don't need a 72 year old man making ALL of my decisions, public and private! I am a cancer survivor that became pregnant and had to abort a very WANTED child to be able to survive and raise my other children. There is a great deal of thought that goes into this "Choice" and we, as responsible adults, should be able to make this decision on our own. We pay taxes for the rights to freedom and everyday, a little of those rights are taken away. What would happen if Obama began running a "dirty" campaign and really exposed John McCain for all of the "abortions" in his past? Oh.....wait....McCain did say....that was 30+ years ago and it's in my past, not NOW!!!! Once a liar, always a liar, 30 years or not! And, this man has 7......count 'em 7 children and NONE of them have come forward to support him publicly. He admitted cheating on his wife, registering for a marriage certificate some 9 months prior to being legally divorced! Oh....that was 30+ years ago, I'VE CHANGED? Isn't that illegal? So, this man wants to tell women what they can do with their bodies.....he obviously had no problem abusing women's bodies for his own pleasure, right? Now, if you have been raped, whether it be a complete stranger, or your marital partner, should you be saddled with the responsibility of care and welfare of that child? God knows, the man isn't coming forward to help, right? Afterall, John McCain left his CRIPPLED wife and three children to pursue his "sexual desires." Oh....wait.....that was 30+ years ago so to him, that doesn't count! His excuse was the clincher.....when he came home from WAR, her "appearance had changed" and he "sort of fell out of love." Oh....to Pastor Rick Warren........he REGRETS his failure of his marriage. He was great "preaching to his choir" and the evalgelists love hearing ONLY what they have been cloned to believe. So, if you vote for John McCain and you just so happen to be in a situation as I was, having to make the hardest decision of my life, if you've been raped, the child most likely would be born with a disability, drug addicted or worse, there WON'T be a DECISION, John McCain will make sure that you have that baby! Now, can you call him and ask for some of those millions that he has to support you and your disabled child? Maybe he'll give up one of those 8 million + dollar homes for you to live in, what do you think?

This was a great post. Thank you for pointing out what anti-woman republicans fail to understand:

Everyone's life is not the same, and people make decisions based on circumstance more than personal values. Government does not get to make medical decisions for anybody, period. why do conservatives seem to think that more government in private life is OK when it's THEIR belief being legislated?

Well, obviously the morals and codes of behavior that these conservatives want people to follow don't actually apply to these same conservatives. Jeez, don't you realize that it's the other people that have to be told how to live their lives? Don't you get it that when other people make bad choices its because they were raised wrong, they were taught in public schools, or they came from the wrong background and if the conservative makes a bad choice it's because Satan got into his heart? Any fool knows that it is never the fault of the conservative when their decisions, based on thinking that has only a passing acquaintance to reality, come back and bite them in the ass. It's a liberal conspiracy when this occurs, or those damn mexicans. Conservatives are proud to send other people's kids off to die to preserve their freedom to spit on those who are different and to force their own values down other people's throats while screaming that their own rights, given by a selective reading of the bible, to be hypocritical misogynists are being trampled.

PS: I am, of course, speaking of a particular type of conservative whom bush represents, and not all of those who consider themselves conservatives.

"PS: I am, of course, speaking of a particular type of conservative whom bush represents, and not all of those who consider themselves conservatives."

Sadly, this type of conservative seems to have taken over the GOP. Please, true fiscal conservatives and social moderates, we know you're out there...take back the damn party! You're letting these holier than thou types run amok!

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Sadly, this type of conservative seems to have taken over the GOP. Please, true fiscal conservatives and social moderates, we know you're out there...take back the damn party! You're letting these holier than thou types run amok!

Um... I think those people formed a new party... the Libertarians. They are looking better and better to me every election cycle.

actually, here in Kansas this battle between "conservative" and "moderate" Republicans has been going on longer than in most places, and the Cs have made it almost impossible for a traditional Republican to remain--that's why you see so many good Republicans registering as Democrats now (e.g. Nancy Boyda, Congresswoman and former Republican who defeated Jim Ryun; Mark Parkinson, former chair of the state GOP and now Lieutenant Governor to Kathleen Sebelius; even Paul Morrison, life-long Republican prosecutor who became a Democrat to defeat former Attorney General Phill "Favorite Son of the Pro-Life Movement" Kline). The Kansas Traditional Republican Majority was formed by mods to try to regain the party, but it is a long and uphill fight....

Um... I think those people formed a new party... the Libertarians. They are looking better and better to me every election cycle.

Indeed. Too bad a Libertarian vote is still a wasted vote. Sometimes I think the Republican party does not realize the religious crazies are scaring off libertarian types from their party. Or rather, they wager that the crazies outnumber the libertarians, and therefore are going to continue their gay-bashing, woman-hating social policies for as long as they can get away with it.

The original Poster to this String is the only "crazy" I see here. "She" and I use that word advisedly - sounds to me like a shill, a "plant" a "fake" story designed and written to attack and punish not just John McCain and his candidacy, but the Republican Party, and ALL MEN for not favoring the absolute, utter, and plain insanity of pro-Abort policies, which have ruined this Country Economically, Politically, Socially and Spiritually. I am 54 years of age; ANYBODY, and I do mean ANYBODY as old as myself or older, can do a simple comparison. Was life better in America BEFORE pro-Abort policies, or AFTER? The answer is quite plain to me. Women are treated far worse now, children are 60 to 80 percent fatherless, which weighs on our future productivity, not to mention these children growing up true, straight and strong. All that love of gangsta rap is a truly ugly social phenomenon of gang culture slipping in to take the place of the missing Fathers, who have been intentionally marginalized by these Corporate, Government, Feminist pro-Abort policies. The notion that women make better decisions completely on their own, and apart from the Men in their Lives, is quite easily debated. Anybody would benefit from good advice, and I do not mean just from the Planned Parenthood types, who have an agenda. Ever heard the phrase, "Two heads are better than one" ? If it works in the classroom, maybe it can work in the Family, eh, Feminists? Women and Children make so many decisive mistakes without the involvement of Male Head of Household Husbands and Fathers in their lives, connected and truly involved, that I would have to assert, that even and especially the Women and Children would be far, far better off, if the Government and the Corporations and the Foundations and the Richie Richs with their "stupid money" could be pursuaded to Back Off of their Infernal pro-Abort Support. It undercuts the authority and involvement of the Male Head of Household in their own Families, which is not good for anyone in the short- near- or long-term. It is by design, and it is evil. I think John McCain understands the evil that is the opposition to Respect for Life. The pro-Abort crowd is always claiming the moral high ground, such as "individual rights" (No Life equals No Rights) or "medical confidentiality" (Abort Clinics are only "medical" by the flimsiest of rationales. They do not suffer medical oversite, they refuse to report their statistics, fighting "tooth and nail" to avoid even this minimal responsiveness. And your pets in animal hospitals and veterinary clinics, gain better supervised and monitored healthcare, than American women do in these offsite breast exam clinics and abortion clinics.) Everyone knows "Right to Privacy" is a way for the bureaucrats to avoid answering to the families and regulators, when they screw up a case. The basic unit of the Shopper may be the individual, but the basic unit of the Society is the Family. People get overly confused, when it comes to money versus social order and a well functioning society. In fact, some people, don't ask me how, take money and it's circulation to actually constitute the society itself. That is false on it's face, but that is how plenty of Americans think. Those Abortion and Breast Exam Clinics? They are all about the money, I assure you. When a corporation or other institution is "all about the money" they absolutely should forfeit their place at the table for discussion of issues impinging on the Family, on Morals, on Social Structures. Can you see the difference?

Let me explain further. American laws derive from Mediterranean, Greek and Roman laws. These in turn derived from Greek and Roman extended Families, or (Male) Heads of Households. As such, American laws favoring Abortion, are turning the (American) Law on its Head, so to speak. Can you understand this irony of Modern American foolishness? If not, I feel sorry for your level of intelligence, and for your ability to vote and debate and decide these issues. Maybe the Suffragist movement needs to be undone, too.

Yes, let us return to the good old days when you could beat the shit out of a woman in the privacy of your own home and the neighbors merely regarded it as "discipline." Let us return to the days when women were regarded as little more than mannequins that doubled as status symbols who deferred to their husbands in all things. You can't really regard women as equal while at the same time you look upon them as walking talking wombs.

Don't worry, MichaelBernard clearly doesn't regard women as equals.

And a woman-hater like him has to pretend the OP is fake and/or crazy (??), of course. That's because she doesn't fit into his neat little box where he can view abortion as inherently evil and women as brainless, useless sluts. When presented with evidence that contradicts his worldview, he merely sticks his head in the sand and blames women for...I don't know, existing I guess. Pathetic.

MichaelBernard2 wrote, "Ever heard the phrase, "Two heads are better than one" ? If it works in the classroom, maybe it can work in the Family, eh, Feminists?"

My first thought when I read that was the "more the merrier", but I think social conservatives might have a problem with that. And when I was growing up I think I usually had just one teacher for all of my classes.