Because God forbid a Republican candidate who believes a woman's vagina isn't community property... for shame. I sure wish they'd remember that when they tax me on tampons and the pill. Where does Washington get those awesome invisible lines...

The National Right to Life Committee's rating of Senator McCain's votes on key Right to Life bills

It's official: Senator McCain is an empty vessel waiting to be filled with whatever any given voter doesn't like about the Republican Party.

Are you questioning Mccain's patriotism?

Watch the fur start flying now:

nope - I think Ochisms is just feeling that asymptomatic (male) anger of not being able to "forcibly" procreate (not rape, let's relax, but force a woman to carry your baby - difference? There is one but I'm not sure what exactly it could/would be). Though a woman with choices of her own is no doubt as threatening as an unpatriotic American.

But for all the sexually active virulently anti choice men out there - I have to ask - you keep a tight check on all your guys? Follow up every sexual encounter with a phone call to make sure you haven't impregnanted your lady friend? I'm sure you double up on your condoms, or maybe you're the even better males - the ones that abstain from sex until marriage and baby time.

Let's see a show of proud Anti-Choice hands being raised. What do YOU do to keep your end of the deal?

And also - can we stop calling one side Pro-LIfe? That's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. Who isn't prolife?? Besides Bin Laden et al.

Most folks are prolife, it's a nice moniker designed to make antichoicers seems more compassionate but really? It's Anti Choice. No more, no less.

LOL. Whatever my motives are, (dark ones, no doubt) it doesn't change the fact that McCain has voted the National Right to Life Committee's position on 27 out of 36 key votes, 33 out of 36 if you discount his votes for the McCain Feingold campaign finance reform bill.

Anyone who holds McCain out as a pro-choice candidate is clearly projecting their policy choices onto him.

Ok, pro-lifers become anti-choice and pro-choice can become pro-death or anti-life.

Having said that, I don't think any pundit should be writing off McCain quite yet. I think the 2006 elections will set the stage for the 2008 primaries. If the Republicans hold their own, that helps Allen and I suppose Frist. If they do badly though, McCain and Rudy (if he actually runs) will be helped.

If McCain is the only "conservative" choice in 08 I think I'd go for a third party...throw my vote away, as many party line types would call it, just like I did in 92. The party has drifted too far to the left on social spending and had 9.11 never happened I probably would have thrown my vote out in 2000.

Oh, stated 08 voting strategy would be tossed out the window should some loony like Dean, Gore or Kucinich be on the opposing ticket (threw that last one in for Dawn).

Can we start using anti-choice for every choice we can't make? Some people won't let me choose what guns to defend myself with, virtually no one will let me choose where my (hypothetical) child will go to school, virtually no one will let me choose my own retirement program...the list goes on and on.

I'd suggest pro-abortion rights and anti-abortion, but that would be too specific and no one would use it.

Ari: Now it seems that the same guys who are anti-abortion also don't think they should fork over for child support. They didn't choose to be a father so why should they be forced to pay support blah blah blah. In court, that argument is going absolutely nowhere.

Really? The same guys?

You just don't like him because he's not a sneering demagogue.