It Isn’t So Joe!
I guess it is possible he was referring to a later ruling where Roe was upheld only by a 5-4 vote...although his wording is rather awkward.
I think he meant that he thought Bork would have helped overturn Roe v. Wade... that’s how I took his remark when I heard it.
Maybe he meant that Bork would rule in favor of overturning RvW should an abortion case make it to the SCOTUS?
To be fair. I think there’s enough to nail Biden on but this isn’t it.
Maybe it’s not the most eloquent of statements but the implication, and I’m fairly certain he meant Bork would have helped to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Hey, I’d rather listen to nails on a chalkboard or even Hillary Clinton’s voice rather than Biden, but I’m pretty sure he meant that Bork would have favored overturning Roe v. Wade. That would be true, since Roe v. Wade is extra-Constitutional and Bork is a strict constructionist.
To be fair, I believe he was talking about the risk of overturning Roe v wade. It was the way I interpreted his remark at the time.
I gather what Joe was saying is that if Bork was on the court that Roe vs Wade would be overruled. That being said I’ve always said that America is a lesser nation without Bork on the supreme court. I think Palin could have pounced on Biden and pointed out that the Borking of Bork was the beginning of the nastiness of the curent political atmosphere.
Rove stated that, while the media may not go after it, there are 10 specific instances that Biden is wrong on factually! Plus about 6 other instances that arguable.
No, I thought it was clear he meant that with Robert Bork on the SCOTUS it would have become more likely that Roe v. Wade could have been overturned or at least significantly restricted in scope.
Where he opened himself up by mentioning his “change” in understanding of how judicial nominees are confirmed is that he and Ted Kennedy and fellow Demagogues totally TRASHED all traditions of comity and deceny and respect in the nomination process. I wish Sarah Barracuda had taken the opening to discuss how Biden savaged the nomination process and wrecked the traditional respect for a President’s prerogative to appoint qualified persons. The Demagogues no longer think that a Republican’s nominees are worthy of the most elementary respect, though of course if Breyer & Ginsburg had been trashed anything like the way that Bork and Thomas were trashed then the Demagogues would have declared Civil War II.
I wouldn’t call that a gaffe...I knew what he meant.
Biden sure spews the BS at a rapid rate.
He obviously meant he’s prevented Roe v. Wade from being overturned — and he has, which makes him a lousy interpreter of the costitution and a moral monster.