WILL McCAIN PANDER TO THE FUNDIES AGAIN?

ABC News reports that McCain has called for a change in the GOP's abortion position, which currently wants abortion prohibited in ALL circumstances. This is THE issue to the Fundies who support the GOP and McCain can't afford to alienate them. BTW, this is a little more evidence that the press is beginning to take a harder look at McWAR.

Will McCain flip-flop or will he stand up for his long-standing belief?


McCain Poised to Flip on GOP Abortion Platform
In '00 and '07, McCain Called for Exceptions in GOP's Platform
on Abortion for Rape, Incest, Mother's Life
By TEDDY DAVIS
May 9, 2008
ABC News

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., faces enormous pressure from social conservatives to ignore his repeated commitment to change the GOP's platform on abortion.

"If he were to change the party platform," to account for exceptions such as rape, incest or risk to the mother's life, "I think that would be political suicide," said Tony Perkins, the president of the conservative Family Research Council, to ABC News. "I think he would be aborting his own campaign because that is such a critical issue to so many Republican voters and the Republican brand is already in trouble."

The problem for McCain, however, is that he excoriated then-Gov. George W. Bush during a 2000 debate for not being willing to make this change to the platform, and Democrats are salivating at the prospect of arguing, in the words of one strategist, "that another four years of Bush begins with another four years of Bush's platform."

Watch McCain's heated exchange with Bush here.

While McCain has not addressed the abortion platform since becoming the presumed Republican nominee, he reaffirmed his desire to change the GOP's official abortion stance following a multicandidate forum that took place in Des Moines, Iowa, April 14, 2007.