if Roe is overturned, why would the single issue voter like my cousin in Iowa vote anymore, or give republicans any money? Roe is a voter turnout issue and cash cow rolled into one
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But, but, Trump will make sure to keep the GOP afloat, for a big share of the $$$.
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The next cause after Roe is dead will be a nationwide abortion ban. Bank on it.
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After Roe is reversed, every state legislator has to declare his or her exact position on abortion. Since opposing all abortions is toxic to the voting population at large, each GOP candidate has to decide how to weasel around the issue. A reversal of Roe is the biggest nightmare of the Republican party. In other words, the dog finally caught the car.
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Most Americans are not OK with repealing Roe. The old guard Republican leadership always knew that, so they played a game: pretend you want to outlaw abortion, but secretly hope that will never happen. The game was barely sustainable before the Tea Party and MAGA madness set in, but now the instinct for self preservation has vanished.
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Maybe, call me crazy, okay I’m crazy, but maybe, just maybe mind you, that Amy Coney Barrett, having just arrived at Court, at which she has a lifetime position, wants to get to know her colleagues, find her bearings, see how it is there among her new colleagues and, having been sold repeatedly by Trump as a sure vote for pet RNC/Evangelical causes, not to mention handing Trump the election, she wants to ease into her new role gently, nice and easy like, and doesn’t want to be labeled right off the bat as an ideologue and a partisan, misusing her enormous power to settle Constitutional matters in favor of her team and ramming them down the throat of a large percentage of the population, if not a resounding majority.
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Man, that was the best laugh I’ve had all day. Thank you.
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I can’t tell you how SICK I am of the term “pro-life.” In view of the actual policy preferences of the right-wing “pro-life” crowd, it has to be the biggest oxymoron of all time.
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Okay, but I can sense that it was a bitter, disdainful, vexed and mildly bemused, guffaw kind of a chuckle-snort.
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Definitely was a snort in there.
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Snort away.
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They haven’t yet because they think the GOP won’t win the Senate and they want cover to protect their real masters- the corporations. It’s still a very pro-corporate court and if they attract incoming fire from the public over a Roe reversal, the House and Senate will gladly rework laws favorable to their decisions.
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Not sniping at you personally, but: that presumes the court has any real legitimacy left. The very fact that any one ‘interest group’ is openly worrying ‘omfg we put this specific judge there to do one job what’s her problem?’ kinda underscores how strongly the judiciary has simply become (in effect) as political and partisan as the other two branches of gov.
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There is plenty of other damage they can do outside of reproductive rights.
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They literally wouldn’t dare. The backlash from actually overturning Roe as supposed to the usual wink-wink, nudge-nudge Kabuki posturing would render the GOP nationally unelectable for the next 20 years. Even if Coney Barrett was to pull the trigger all that would accomplish would to be to compel Roberts and Gorsuch to join the liberal wing.
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What will the christalopithecans fundraise off if they overturn roe v. wade? You don’t want that dog catching the car.
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Ross Douthat is already salivating at the prospect in the New York Times. It won’t be for lack of trying.
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…only on the technical question concerning whether the state’s attorney general, a Republican, can defend the state’s restrictive abortion law against the wishes of the Democratic governor.
I think this is a legitimate purpose of the Court — to keep each branch of government consistent within itself, and to keep all three branches of government pointed in the same direction.
But if that direction is to outlaw abortion and create millions of outlaws, then the Court is clearly ignoring cultural values and establishing a religion, one antagonistic to the majority of people in the country.
We don’t need that. Republican voters don’t even want that.
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When I want the opinion of VD Hanson I will write it on my shoe and give it to him. Let him crawl back into his hooverhole with scott “herd immunity” atlas.
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I have no doubt that she is “the real deal”. Maybe she wants to put some more time between her appointment and giving everyone the chance to say, “I told you she would bring her Catholic bias into the court.” She tried to hide her religious beliefs during her confirmation hearing. She may still be trying to hide them. For now.
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You are almost certainly correct, but it would be delicious if she turned out to be Amy “Souter” Barrett
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