Dred Scott and WTF?

Like many people, I was fucking baffled when Bush mentioned the Dred Scott case in last night's debate. Sooooo... he wasn't going to appoint anyone who was pro-slavery? Ummmm, at this point, I would hope that's a given in this country.

But according to the DailyKos, there's more to this story that many of us saner voters probably missed:

When Bush made reference to "Dred Scott" he was assuring his anti-choice constituents that he would indeed only appoint Supreme Court justices who would remove abortion rights.

a-ha. Now that makes sense. Apparently among the looney fringe, the Dred Scott decision is frequently used as a parallel to the Roe v Wade decision.

An example from dailykos:

The reasoning in Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade is nearly identical. In both cases the Court stripped all rights from a class of human beings and reduced them to nothing more than the property of others. Compare the arguments the Court used to justify slavery and abortion. Clearly, in the Court's eyes, unborn children are now the same "beings of an inferior order" that the justices considered Blacks to be over a century ago.

And there you have it. Bush's whole "I'm not telling you!" act was clever- but not clever enough. Much love to the amazingly astute folks at dailykos.

edited cause I should probably add a link to the dailykos page with the info...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/9/16460/5820