O.K., stupid hypothetical. But I've got $10 on the given responses.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

Silly dichotomy: just play the game.

Would you rather:
1) Have chimpy as pResident, BUT keep a woman's right to choose;
OR
2) Have Dennis K. (or your dem. of choice) as President, and all of his or her policies, BUT lose a woman's right to choose.

Yes, I realize the answer is neither.

Humor me?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. I'm a woman

Guess what my answer is.

Presidents serve a finite term.

Roe v. Wade has a longer life than that.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

3. Can you be explicit about the answer?

I assume you mean chimpy. But can you confirm?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. Yes

He's going to be gone at the end of his term.

Roe v. Wade will endure long after he's gone.

So, yeah, I'd take him :::: gagging :::: and preserve a woman's right to choose.

[mmonk]

5. Have you heard of the nuclear option?

[LynzM]

9. Agreed

Very tough choice, but like you said... one has a finite term, the other does not (assumed, but still.)

[Warpy]

10. I am a woman

and my rights are not negotiable.

Run a fetus fetishist on the Dem side and you'll end up with half a party.

There is no way any woman with an ounce of self respect will vote for any sack of shit that is hell bent to enslave half the population of this country.

No way.

[gollygee]

23. I'm with you

Gag gag gag but Roe v. Wade is longer lasting.

[formerrepuke]

2. Remember, you asked for it......#2

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. I'd rather move to a more progressive continent.

:hi:

[Walt Starr]

6. 1)

It's far easier to keep what you already have than to get back that which has been taken from you.

[MissWaverly]

7. I would have to say 1

The reason is that I lived through the period before Roe vs Wade, it was an ugly thing for women, and we cannot go back to that barbarism, at least the reign of the Chimp will end, if Roe vs Wade is overturned, it may be decades before this is resolved.

[LSdemocrat]

8. #2

[Bruce McAuley]

12. #2 BUT...

Give all men vasectomies after their second live child.

Bruce

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

16. Wow, now you've brought up a real problem.

To vote #2 AND have mandatory vasectomies: which candidate's platform was that part of? :-) And I thought Dennis K.'s Dept. of Peace had a snowball's chance in hell.

[Mandate My Ass]

13. A vote against choice is unacceptable to me.

Just as a vote for a candidate that would infringe upon the basic rights of minorities or gays would be unacceptable to me even though I'm not a minority or gay. If you rationalize eliminating reproductive choice in order to win elections, the slide will not stop there because the right doesn't compromise or back down, they just keep demanding more and more concessions.

However, with Bush in office all of our rights as Americans are being rescinded or eroded in one way or another and will continue to be, so it's only a matter of time before he gets his theocracy - the fundamentalist full Monty so to speak - enacted.

It's lose/lose no matter which way you look at it.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

15. So you'd take option 1, then?

[BlueJazz]

14. For this male, a woman's right to choose comes first.

[morgan2]

17. how is that even a choice?

Of course I'd take Kucinich... How selfish some people can be. Gays/Blacks/others are always told to quite down and wait on making progress with their rights because they arent politically succesful issues at the time. If you don't think Bush is making long term changes that are going to harm this country more than your right to have an abortion you aren't paying attention.

[countryjake]

18. After we lose THAT right, what's next?

You're right, it's a silly thing to ask!

1) would be my answer.

And for those who think that's stupid, you have NO idea what it was like before!

[Kenneth ken]

19. No - it's a stupid game

I will remind that Dennis K supports a woman's right to choose. Therefore, I can NOT choose option 2 with the BUT, because that's a lie.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

20. Yes, yes. I understand your point.

I never said Dennis K. was pro-life. I threw out a hypothetical. You know, separation of powers. You know, that the party in power may not get the judges they hope they'd get (7 out of 9 of the judges now serving were appointed by repubs.--d'OH).

It's a hypothetical. That's why I called it silly/stupid. So your answer simply reasserts a premise already given. Good job.

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. #2

I wouldn't support any one issue to the exclusion of everything else. This country is going to hell in a bucket and women's loss of reproductive freedom is only one part.

[thecorster]

22. I have no stake in the abortion debate

I don't think it should be a political issue. So I would gladly give up the unnecessary deaths of 1600 American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. Also, I think if a contemplative Dem had been in office in 2001, we could have halted 9/11

Sorry ladies, I'd take a good Dem any day.

[TexasSissy]

24. You should really direct your apologies to the men who are going

to be paying the child support for unplanned pregnancies.

(and here's a 21st century tip: the term usu. is "women" when speaking of women's issues. Know you didn't mean anything by it. Just thought you'd wanna know. "Ladies" is considered a bit condescending when speaking seriously of women's issues. I'm sure some others will disagree...but I challenge anyone to find a legit news article on the subject of women's issues, where they refer to "ladies' issues.")

[thecorster]

25. Noted.

I knew I'd not be popular for that post. I just don't see how you could say "yeah, I'd let all this shit happen again just so women could have abortions." Is the right to choose important? Hell yes. Is the prospect of peace and prosperity for 8 years more important? Well, I guess that was the object of the game/question.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

26. Your liver should hurt....and a lot.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

27. So sayeth my liver.

And my pancreas . . . who really seems to enjoy the suffering of my liver.