Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
at
9:01 AM
This morning my friends over at AnkleBitingPundits are having something you seldom see amongst conservatives - and now never see amongst liberals. Pat Hynes - McCain's mouthpiece to the blogosphere - and Bulldog Pundit have had the audacity to publicly spat about McCain's candidacy.
Bulldog's case is hard to refute, and for my two cents - Pat's "case for McCain" doesn't come close to cutting it. Pat ascribes way too much credit for McCain's position on abortion. McCain has done little more in my opinion than give passing grades to the pro-life issue, but he certainly can not be ascribed as any sort of pro-life champion.
Perhaps McCain's biggest selling point IS his staunch line on the Global War On Terror. But the problem here Pat (and any other McCain supporters) is that he has been such a bad teammate to those attempting to fight the GWOT it has been hard to fully trust him. And McCain's insistence that illegal immigration is more or less disconnected from the GWOT is equally disturbing. So disturbing that it detracts from his credibility on the war - AS IT DOES BUSH'S.
Pat also seems to slander Romney and Condi in particular when it comes to actual known positions on abortion. If he knows more than others - than I would be glad to hear it. I think that it is safe to say however that neither Romney nor Condi would be classified as ABORTION ON DEMAND advocates for the full nine months of the pregnancy.
AnklebitingPundits should get kudos though for the level of disagreement that they are fostering there and for doing their part to advance the debate on a topic as important as who will lead the free world from 2008 forward...