Desperate times call for desperate measures. No one knows
this better than the McCain campaign, which is attempting to make abortion a
key issue in this year’s election, yet again. Yawn.
As Sarah Palin told Pennsylvania
voters, “In times like these with wars and financial crisis, I know that it may
be easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life, and
it seems that our opponent kind of hopes you will forget that.”
Actually, I’m pretty sure he’s just more focused on the “wars
and financial crisis”—as, apparently, are the American people. As Slate’s Melinda
Henneberger points out, even people who have been single issue, anti-choice
voters in the past have decided that the economy, the environment, and health
care matter more than Roe v. Wade this time around.
Photo: Jim Young/Reuters
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