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Push Polls and Judge Roberts

by John Cole|  August 6, 200512:23 pm| 5 Comments

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Details here. Again- this is one person’s mother, so let’s not get too worked up…

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  1. 1.

    ppGaz

    August 6, 2005 at 12:32 pm

    Roberts will be confirmed unless there is something we don’t know. Same thing I said on Day One. If I were a Dem senator, I’d vote to confirm based on what I know now.

    Where’s the beef?

  2. 2.

    Mr.Ortiz

    August 6, 2005 at 1:37 pm

    It’s Karl Rove! He’s trying to distract from his own troubles by smearing his own party’s nominee, and doing it so slopily it actually increases voter sympathy for Republicans. The man is a genius.

    Okay, I don’t really believe that, but I wouldn’t put it past him either.

  3. 3.

    Geek, Esq.

    August 6, 2005 at 2:55 pm

    Is there a soul on the planet that thinks that Roberts won’t vote to overturn Roe?

  4. 4.

    ppGaz

    August 6, 2005 at 3:18 pm

    Is there a soul on the planet that thinks that Roberts won’t vote to overturn Roe?

    Probably, but it won’t matter. The future of the American Experiment does not hang on Roe v. Wade. An overturn of Roe will not suffice to return us to 1967. All it would do is stir up the churn and inflame the partisans. When it’s all said and done, somewhere way down the road when the country is grown up, people will have some kind of “choice” (whatever you think that is) and other things will be a lot more important. On the grand and global scale of things, this issue is way down the the list. It’s only up on the list now because it’s politically useful for it to be.

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    demimondian

    August 6, 2005 at 8:56 pm

    Is there a soul on the planet that thinks that Roberts won’t vote to overturn Roe?

    I keep reminding people who start hyperventilating about this about something amazing which happened back when Casey v. Planned Parenthood was actually before the Court. A lot of “pro-life” Republicans started reporting having had “conversations” with their wives or daughters, and publicly reaffirming their general support for some form of an abortion right.

    Had the Casey decision gone the other way that July, I’m quite certain that some form of the Roe test would have been back on the books before the beginning of the summer. But, to everyone’s surprise, Sandra Day O’Connor wrote a stunning decision, to vote to protect Roe, on the grounds that it was “settled law”.

    Will Roberts vote against Roe? Quite possibly, although O’Connor’s wording is significant, given his own answers to questions. Will it be the end of the world? Not for American women, nor for the American experiment.

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