Most people don’t understand that if Roe v. Wade would be overturned, that doesn’t mean abortion would then be illegal in the United States, it just means that, according to the Tenth Amendment, each state would decide the abortion issue for themselves; all fifty states making abortion law according to their state legislatures or public referenda, so Rudy Giuliani pledging constructionist Supreme Court Justices if he’s elected president could result in the overturning of Roe, but don’t let people tell you that would mean the end of abortion, as the states would be allowed the constitutional right to decide this issue which is actually not within the perview of the U.S. Constitution, and therefore, which should be left to each state to decide according to the Tenth Amendment.
And because people feel so strongly about this issue, both pro and con, it is only fair that the people decide it on a state-by-state basis by vote, not by vote of a mere nine people in black robes up in D.C. as is the case today.
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Mike Huckabee Pulls Attack Ad in Iowa Wrongly Citing Ronald Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment Showing Huckabee has Disingenous or Ignorant Flair for Political Theatre
December 31, 2007Mike Huckabee pulled an attack ad against Romney in Iowa today, citing Ronald Reagan’s eleventh commandment that “a Republican shalt not speak ill of another Republican.” That’s Huckabee trying to take the high ground in his sparring with Romney, but unfortunately for Huckabee, Reagan’s commandment applies to the general election, not to the Republican primaries.
I don’t know where Mike Huckabee was in 1980 when Ronald Reagan was raking George Bush Sr. over the coals in the Republican primaries, but he’s either disingenously invoking Reagan, or just flat out doesn’t know any better, so either way, it certainly does not help candidate Huckabee’s cause.