Vote for McCain = death of Roe v. Wade

Let’s be clear, a vote for McCain is a vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, Lawrence v. Texas, and all other supreme court decisions giving the people some measure of protection of privacy.

Whoever the next president is will appoint replacements for the two most liberal justices, Stevens and Ginsberg. Justice Stevens is 88 years old. Justice Ginsberg has been battling colon cancer.

John McCain, if elected, will appoint right wing judges in the mold of Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Scalia. Kennedy, currently the swing justice, is a holdout, as far as the conservative platform goes, on reproductive rights, gay rights, and a host of other issues having to do with personal choice. Any new appointment by McCain will be further to the right on those issues. And, because the Republicans have set a course of appointing very young, unqualified and ideologically driven persons to the bench, it is a guarantee that the Court would stay to the far right for a generation.

So, to those PUMAs (Party Unity My Ass) who rant and rave about HRC not being the nominee, understand that if McCain wins, Roe v. Wade will disappear. There are four votes against it now (Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas). The fifth vote will end that chapter of womens’ ability to chart their own destiny.

And while we’re at it, lets be frank, the person that the HRC supporters should be angry at is HRC herself. It was her election to lose, and she lost it with a serious of awful choices – from her early triangulation and Dick Morris-style positioning to win a general election (which turned off a large portion of the Democratic base); to her refusal to admit that authorizing the war in Iraq was a mistake (and it was obvious even when she cast that vote that it was all about positioning and triangulation); to her vitriolic attacks on Obama; to her inability to choose a theme for her campaign, to her mismanagement of personnel and funds – HRC did not run a good campaign, and she lost because of it. Be angry at her. I am.