GOP Leader Fears Backlash if Roe v Wade is Overturned

[Frodo]

I think we all knew this, but it is noteworthy that an elected Republican is coming out in the open, in effect admitting in so many words that the GOP is consciously screwing social and religious conservatives for their votes by keeping abortion alive as a federal issue:
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GOP leader fears backlash if Roe v. Wade is overturned

By Nina Easton, Globe Staff  |  November 17, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The Republican lawmaker who helped guide the GOP to an expanded majority in the House three years ago warned yesterday that a Supreme Court ruling overturning a woman's legal right to an abortion -- a possibility if the high court shifts further to the right -- could hurt his party's political prospects and cause a ''sea change" in suburban voting habits.

Representative Tom Davis of Virginia, who chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee through the 2002 election, said that if the Supreme Court threw out Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established that abortion rights were protected by the Constitution, ''you're going to have a lot of very nervous suburban candidates."

At a breakfast gathering of reporters, Davis said Republicans have a political cushion with voters as long as Roe is intact. Currently, ''you can be prolife and no one feels that's a threat to someone having to make a difficult decision" if abortion is illegal, he said.

Davis's comments came days after the disclosure of a 1985 document in which Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. said he believed the US Constitution ''does not protect the right to an abortion."

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[MODU]

Tom is a pretty neat guy (got to meet him once), and hearing him say this doesn't surprise me.  This is why Roe v Wade needs to be re-addressed in the context of another abortion case.  We've had decades of precedence from a bad ruling that needs to be addressed before an actual change in the legal view of the issue can occur.  This is why I think we should go with the popular opinion that abortion should be just in the case of rape, incest, or threat to mothers medical health.  The majority will understand this and make a good foundation for a move to nullify the platform based off of Roe v Wade.

[Blue Rectangle]

GOP leader fears backlash if Roe v. Wade is overturned

By Nina Easton, Globe Staff  |  November 17, 2005

Nina Easton is so hot!  Remember the video for "Strut"?

[Frodo]

GOP leader fears backlash if Roe v. Wade is overturned

By Nina Easton, Globe Staff  |  November 17, 2005

Nina Easton is so hot!  Remember the video for "Strut"?

Don't change the subject. 

[TeePee4Prez]

Bye Bye Gerlach, Fitzpatrick, and Weldon!

[Keystone Phil]

Bye Bye Gerlach, Fitzpatrick, and Weldon!

I can understand if you think Gerlach will be beat. I can understand if you think Fitz will go down (though it's unlikely). But "Bye Bye, Curt Weldon?" Snap out of it, hack.

[TeePee4Prez]

Bye Bye Gerlach, Fitzpatrick, and Weldon!

I can understand if you think Gerlach will be beat. I can understand if you think Fitz will go down (though it's unlikely). But "Bye Bye, Curt Weldon?" Snap out of it, hack.

One could hope!

[J. J.]

Representative Tom Davis of Virginia, who chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee through the 2002 election, said that if the Supreme Court threw out Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established that abortion rights were protected by the Constitution, ''you're going to have a lot of very nervous suburban candidates."

At a breakfast gathering of reporters, Davis said Republicans have a political cushion with voters as long as Roe is intact. Currently, ''you can be prolife and no one feels that's a threat to someone having to make a difficult decision" if abortion is illegal, he said.


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Well, I think the country is in the middle on abortion.  A lot of people may not want it abolished, but they feel that it is not a right to extent that a sixteen year of can have an abortion without parental consent or a court order, or that it should be funded by the government.  An extreme pro-life position, "never ever," would destroy the suburban GOP vote.  Likewise, an extreme, "abortion up to birth, because it's a woman's choice," would sink the Democrats.

GOP leader fears backlash if Roe v. Wade is overturned

By Nina Easton, Globe Staff  |  November 17, 2005

Nina Easton is so hot!  Remember the video for "Strut"?

That was Sheena Easton.

[Keystone Phil]

Bye Bye Gerlach, Fitzpatrick, and Weldon!

I can understand if you think Gerlach will be beat. I can understand if you think Fitz will go down (though it's unlikely). But "Bye Bye, Curt Weldon?" Snap out of it, hack.

One could hope!

I am convinced that you have no brain.

[TeePee4Prez]

Bye Bye Gerlach, Fitzpatrick, and Weldon!

I can understand if you think Gerlach will be beat. I can understand if you think Fitz will go down (though it's unlikely). But "Bye Bye, Curt Weldon?" Snap out of it, hack.

One could hope!

I am convinced that you have no brain.

I am convinced you are a partisan hack.

[Blue Rectangle]

GOP leader fears backlash if Roe v. Wade is overturned

By Nina Easton, Globe Staff  |  November 17, 2005

Nina Easton is so hot!  Remember the video for "Strut"?

That was Sheena Easton.

<singing> Looks like we're in for nasty weather...

[Keystone Phil]

Bye Bye Gerlach, Fitzpatrick, and Weldon!

I can understand if you think Gerlach will be beat. I can understand if you think Fitz will go down (though it's unlikely). But "Bye Bye, Curt Weldon?" Snap out of it, hack.

One could hope!

I am convinced that you have no brain.

I am convinced you are a partisan hack.

Yes because I say dumb things like "Bye Bye Mike Doyle and Paul Kanjorksi!" 

[TeePee4Prez]

Bye Bye Gerlach, Fitzpatrick, and Weldon!

I can understand if you think Gerlach will be beat. I can understand if you think Fitz will go down (though it's unlikely). But "Bye Bye, Curt Weldon?" Snap out of it, hack.

One could hope!

I am convinced that you have no brain.

I am convinced you are a partisan hack.

Yes because I say dumb things like "Bye Bye Mike Doyle and Paul Kanjorksi!" 

You are so uptight.  This Forum does have a thing called entertainment value you know.

[Keystone Phil]

You are so uptight. 

That's what you say when you lose. Thanks for playing.

[TeePee4Prez]

You are so uptight. 

That's what you say when you lose. Thanks for playing.

I know Weldon's not going to lose.  Are you stupid enough to beleive I really think that?

[Keystone Phil]

You are so uptight. 

That's what you say when you lose. Thanks for playing.

I know Weldon's not going to lose.  Are you stupid enough to beleive I really think that?

Am I stupid enough? You were the one who said it and it wasn't just in this thread either. You said he could lose next year. I love when you dig yourself a hole and struggle to get out.

[MODU]

Ok kids.  Let it go and get back on topic.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Here's a good compromise: get rid of roe V. Wade then pass a federal law stating that abortion has to be legal in cases of the mother's life being in danger but other than that states are free to set up laws how they'd desire to do so.

[A18]

Here's a good compromise: get rid of roe V. Wade then pass a federal law stating that abortion has to be legal in cases of the mother's life being in danger but other than that states are free to set up laws how they'd desire to do so.

That federal law would be unconstitutional.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

and? its not like the governmnet cares about the constitution these days.

[Dan]

The Republican Party =  Gutless Wimps.

GOP running away from abortion, immigrant, illegal immigrant, racial issues, etc.  What will this gang of PC whimps run away from next?

[opebo]

The Republican Party =  Gutless Wimps.

GOP running away from abortion, immigrant, illegal immigrant, racial issues, etc.  What will this gang of PC whimps run away from next?

The Jews?