I added a second downvote to signify “don’t feed trolls, even to correct their minor points”. It’s best for the grandparent comment to get downvoted and disappear unremarked, with no children. (I’m violating the norm in order to state it.)
Yes this is basically right, don’t know why orthonormal’s comment was downvoted when I found it. I have agreed with and upvoted some of sam0345′s comments in the past but honestly he really is trying his best to not participate in a productive way.
Herman Cain is not articulately describing his position on abortion. But I suspect that the political label “pro-choice” is not going to turn out to be accurate.
In other words, applying the label is only scoring a political point.
If you were really asking whether Herman Cain is accurately labelled as pro-choice, then that isn’t clear from the post.
I really don’t think we should get into this topic further, but my impressions of recent events were that
a) Herman Cain was, in fact, pro-choice, but
b) did not realize that opposing coercive state interference against abortion even though one is personally opposed to it is a pro-choice position, and
c) Herman Cain will soon change his substantive position to actually be anti-abortion to match the tribal preferences of the primary electorate he is courting.
I thought he was, actually; I was surprised that I was apparently expected to hate the man when all I knew about him was vaguely “isn’t he that Republican candidate that thinks abortion should be the woman’s decision?”
I don’t actually keep up with political news; thinking back, I’m pretty sure I got that idea from overhearing conversation in a bagel shop. Which indicates something is terribly off about my skepticism filters.
Isn’t Herman Cain pro-choice?
Edit: What’s the downvote for?
I added a second downvote to signify “don’t feed trolls, even to correct their minor points”. It’s best for the grandparent comment to get downvoted and disappear unremarked, with no children. (I’m violating the norm in order to state it.)
Yes this is basically right, don’t know why orthonormal’s comment was downvoted when I found it. I have agreed with and upvoted some of sam0345′s comments in the past but honestly he really is trying his best to not participate in a productive way.
Herman Cain is not articulately describing his position on abortion. But I suspect that the political label “pro-choice” is not going to turn out to be accurate.
In other words, applying the label is only scoring a political point.
If you were really asking whether Herman Cain is accurately labelled as pro-choice, then that isn’t clear from the post.
I really don’t think we should get into this topic further, but my impressions of recent events were that a) Herman Cain was, in fact, pro-choice, but b) did not realize that opposing coercive state interference against abortion even though one is personally opposed to it is a pro-choice position, and c) Herman Cain will soon change his substantive position to actually be anti-abortion to match the tribal preferences of the primary electorate he is courting.
Apparently not.
I thought he was, actually; I was surprised that I was apparently expected to hate the man when all I knew about him was vaguely “isn’t he that Republican candidate that thinks abortion should be the woman’s decision?”
I don’t actually keep up with political news; thinking back, I’m pretty sure I got that idea from overhearing conversation in a bagel shop. Which indicates something is terribly off about my skepticism filters.