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McCain supports amendments banning gay marriage and abortion?!?!
According to Palin anyway.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/palin_mccain_supports_gop_abor.php
Dr. James Dobson today asked Gov. Sarah Palin about her private conversations with Sen. McCain about the Republican platform's planks on life and marriage.
"In your private conversations with Senator McCain is it your impression that he also strongly supports those views? I know that he did not oppose that platform when it was written. Do you think he will implement it?"
Good question. A lot of social conservatives worry about this.
Governor Palin responded: "I do, from the bottom of my heart. I am such a strong believer that McCain believes in those strong planks and we do have good conversations about some of the details too, about the different planks and what they represent."
The 2008 GOP platform is a bit more conservative than it was in 2004. If McCain is going to implement it - something of which Palin is convinced from the bottom of her heart - then that means that McCain will support a constitutional amendment to ban all abortion (including those cases where the mother was raped or was the victim of incest), a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, and he will oppose government-sponsored embryonic stem cell research.
Either Palin trying to mislead Dobson, equivocate, or perhaps he doesn't know what her running mate believes. McCain opposes a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.... He supports embryonic stem cell research...he opposes a constitutional amendment banning all abortion. Read the platform for yourself: On abortion... on gay marriage... on stem cells.. .
So...either she has no clue what she is talking about, or McCain is lying to us all. I'm inclined to believe the former, though I know others think more highly of her than I do. So...is McCain lying?
The link has the full transcript. I'm suprised this isn't getting more attention.
Thoughts?
Re: McCain supports amendments banning gay marriage and abortion?!?!
She is a damn disaster. McCain, in one of the few policy points I agree with him on, is in favor of stem cell research. The new GOP platform actually bans ALL stem cell research, whether privately or federally funded. I can hardly begin to describe how nearsighted this is - it makes me angrier than almost anything.
Palin simply doesn't know what she's talking about - how can anyone come to another conclusion?
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