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Trump[1] and Cruz have said this. Are they lying? In the past, the supreme court wasn't the political football it has become today. [1] http://www.cnbc.com/20

• ubernostrum 10y ago
  Slight counterpoint: I believe Republicans want to campaign on overturning Roe, and do want to chip away at it in ways which don't completely overturn, but that they want to be able to continue campaigning on overturning it, forever. They're not idiots. They know they have a topic that gets a lot of single-issue voters to go out and cast ballots every election. And they know public opinion is overwhelmingly against fully overturning Roe, so if they ever succeeded they'd be in trouble: a lot of the country would be against them, and the single-issue hotheads would no longer have a righteous cause to motivate them to vote. So what they want is the campaign issue, not the reality of actually overturning it.
• MrZongle2 10y ago
  "Trump and Cruz have said this. Are they lying?" Are they politicians? More seriously: Obama said a lot of things that didn't come to pass. Was he lying? Clinton has said a lot of things on the campaign trail: is she telling the truth on everything? How much is truth, and how much is pandering to the target audience? Are candidates from the different parties held by a different standard in this regard?