McCain's Choice

On why, when it comes down to it on life, you want to have Mitt in your corner, who as governor in liberal Massachusetts fought killing embryos for research and regularizing gay marriage. Andy McCarthy, NRO on Wisconsin Right to Life vs. John McCain:

Senator McCain's choice was not: do I defend campaign finance laws as faithfully as possible, regardless of whose ox is gored, because that's just the kinda straight-talkin' maverick I am? Of course he'll try to sell it that way, and perhaps get ten-thousand pro-abortion, pro-political-speech-suppression law professors to back him up. (I hear there may be a few such law professors available.) But McCain's actual choice was: What's more important to me, defending life or defending the suppression of political speech? He chose to defend the suppression of political speech.

He could have stayed out of it entirely. Or, choosing to involve himself, he could have filed an amicus brief in support of Wisconsin Right to Life, arguing for the urgency of permitting its message to be heard. He chose, instead, to support restrictions on speech for the benefit of incumbents — particularly, his co-crusader against the First Amendment, Sen. Russ Feingold. McCain's choice.

His liberal buddy in Congress over the lives of the unborn.

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