Word: planks
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...find spots in his administration. He said he wasn't going to "tear down" his opponent, but his campaign literature told voters that "McCain says one thing but does another," and it distorted many of McCain's positions--charging, for example, that McCain wants to remove the pro-life plank from the G.O.P platform. That isn't true, and among religious conservatives, it was a napalm blast at McCain...
...Robertson threatened that "a large portion of the Republican base would walk away" if McCain was the nominee. Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois, chairman of the House impeachment proceedings, taped a phone message for 100,000 voters, implicitly criticizing McCain for wanting to change the G.O.P's abortion plank to include exceptions for rape and incest--exceptions Bush also supports, though Hyde didn't mention that. The National Right to Life Committee issued a mass mailing warning that McCain "voted repeatedly to use tax dollars for experiments that use body parts from aborted babies." On the front of the leaflet...
...next president may have the power to change the composition of the Supreme Court into a group with the numbers to overturn Roe v. Wade. Candidate Bush's clarification of his anti-abortion stance last week was unsurprising but also indicative of the strength of that plank of the Republican platform. As we mark the 27th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the possible abandonment of a woman's right to choose is a thought scary enough to make you board the next Democratic campaign bus to New Hampshire...