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Is McCain going to screw conservatives (again)?; RNC says message received?

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 19, 2008 09:11 AM

Scroll down for updates…3:42pm Eastern… Message received? Fox: “Several sources at the RNC told FOX News that in the last 36 hours, senior McCain advisers and aides have told RNC officials that McCain ‘got the message’ last week that choosing a running mate who supports abortion rights would not be helpful.” Don’t exhale yet.

Wouldn’t put it past him. Would you? Which is why, despite all the encomiums he’s received from his Saddleback appearance, I haven’t joined the ga-ga bandwagon (and won’t).

Rich Lowry reports:

NR has learned that the McCain campaign has been calling key state GOP officials around the country the last couple of days and sounding them out about the consequences of a pro-choice VP pick. The campaign is asking about the reaction of conservative grass-roots activists to such a pick and whether a pro-choicer can be sold to them. This is an indication that the McCain campaign is serious about the possibility of a pro-choice VP nominee and that McCain leaving the door open to Tom Ridge last week may not have been merely a friendly nod to a longtime supporter.

Sound off. Guess they didn’t hear you loud enough the first go around.

Hat tip: Big A.

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Update: David Limbaugh calls it…

McCain must quit echoing the Democratic talking point that places form over substance and the illusion of bipartisanship above principle. Who says Americans “want us to work together” if that means abandoning legal protection for the innocent unborn or other inviolable principles?

Update: McRudy?!?!?!

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  1. #601
    On August 22nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm, right4life said:

    zero, you’ve already made the case that evolution is a faith, not science.

    as far as intelligence…your evaluation of your intelligence is about as good as your defense of your hairygod darwin.

  2. #602
    On August 22nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm, right4life said:

    btw: how does your evolved sense of morality feel about supporting a theory with such a long history of racism and eugenics?

    I’m sure you’re very proud of that legacy!!

  3. #603
    On August 22nd, 2008 at 5:02 pm, zeroangel said:
  4. #604
    On August 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm, right4life said:

    victims of atheism

    victims of darwinism

    let me guess you’re also pro-abortion!

  5. #605
    On August 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 pm, right4life said:

    but I do feel sorry for you, such stupidity has to hurt!! and you are in a great deal of pain.

    but hey thats typical for a darwiniac!! even your ‘best’ and ‘brightest’ like dawkins are so easily made fools of!! perhaps you darwiniacs need to evolve some intelligence.

    your posts reveal you have a lot of ‘evolving’ ahead of you!

  6. #606
    On August 22nd, 2008 at 9:54 pm, zeroangel said:

    but I do feel sorry for you

    such stupidity has to hurt!! and you are in a great deal of pain.

    easily made fools of!!

    evolve some intelligence.

    FSM

    Prove it!

    there have been human footprints found by dinosaur tracks

  7. #607
    On August 23rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm, right4life said:

    PZ Myers, noted athiest/darwiniac, with a typically evolved sense of morality!!

    after the muslim cartoons:

    There is a genuine social concern here, I think. Muslims represent a poor and oppressed underclass, and those cartoons represent a ruling establishment intentionally taunting them and basically flipping them off. They have cause to be furious!

    yes, the poor oppressed muslims!! such a kind, ‘concerned’ atheist about religous sensitivies….

    christians on the other hand:

    . Recently, he desecrated the Eucharist by obtaining a consecrated Host, nailing it, throwing it in the garbage, and posting a photograph of it on Pharyngula

    so much for evolved ethics.

    and on those who dare disagree with his hairygod darwin:

    I say, screw the polite words and careful rhetoric. It’s time for scientists to break out the steel-toed boots and brass knuckles, and get out there and hammer on the lunatics and idiots

    Sounds like the good atheist professor Myers has a final solution in mind for christians and those who disagree with evolution.

    I’m sure you do to zerodemon

  8. #608
    On August 23rd, 2008 at 11:48 pm, zeroangel said:

    He also drove a nail through the Koran and a copy of Dawkins’ “The God Delusion” in the same stunt.

    BTW, I fought in the Iraq War, how about you?

  9. #609
    On August 24th, 2008 at 9:40 am, right4life said:

    George William Hunter’s A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems (1914) was the book that sparked the controversy. Condemned as heretical in 1925, today it would seem to be a manual for enlightenment’s battle against religion’s perceived mysticism. Yet if John Scopes were to teach the very same Civic Biology in a modern classroom, he would probably be put on trial again. Because buried under the dust of history is the fact that this progressive, pro-evolution text was also quite racist.

    Take, for example, these lines from page 196 of Hunter’s original version:

    At the present time there exist upon the earth five races or varieties of man, each very different from the other in instincts, social customs, and, to an extent, in structure. These are the Ethiopian or negro type, originating in Africa; the Malay or brown race, from the islands of the Pacific; the American Indian; the Mongolian or yellow race, including the natives of China, Japan, and the Eskimos; and finally, the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe

    Hunter was also a proponent of eugenics. “[T]he science of being well born,” his text instructed, is an imperative for sophisticated society. “When people marry there are certain things that the individual as well as the race should demand,” he wrote, arguing that tuberculosis, epilepsy, and even “feeble-mindedness are handicaps which it is not only unfair but criminal to hand down to posterity.”

    “If such people were lower animals, we would probably kill them off to prevent them from spreading,” Hunter lamented in Civic Biology. “Humanity will not allow this but we do have the remedy of separating the sexes in asylums or other places and in various ways preventing intermarriage and the possibilities of perpetuating such a low and degenerate race.”

    link

    Black people ‘less intelligent’ scientist claims

    Science has often been used as a justification to propose, project, and enact racist social policies. The philosophical and political underpinnings of ideas associated with racial superiority and inferiority were first given scientific legitimacy and credence with the publication of Charles Darwin’s (1859) revolutionary book, The Origin of Species. In more recent times, the controversy surrounding the publication of Herrnstein and Murray’s (1994) presumably scientific study, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, and the reintroduction to the national conversation of powerful arguments about race and human abilities, provide yet another opportunity to focus on questions pertinent to the origins, maintenance, and consequences of human abilities and potential. In the main, however, such studies and debates reveal far more about those proposing and advocating racist arguments than about the groups toward whom they are directed.

    link

    On the Origin of Species
    Subtitle or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

    Author Charles Darwin

    ‘The German Führer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.’

    Reference
    Keith, A., Evolution and Ethics, Putnam, NY, USA, p. 230, 1947.

  10. #610
    On August 27th, 2008 at 3:41 pm, cheapseat said:

    god what a blog line. to those no abortions under any circumstances i ask you how many nonforeign children you have adopted? to those who say abortion on demand at all times, how can you condone partial birth abortion and say hang the mother who puts her newborn into the trash. catholics need to reconcile their pedophile priests and their restocking the alterboy ranks with illegal aliens and stop sellectively applying which laws they will obey. the catholic marriage specifically has the father of the bride hand over his daughter to the husband, so when a spouse says their spouse is dead, catholics get over it.

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