Posted on 01/23/2015 9:19:18 PM PST by Morgana
I know there are many angered by the title of this post, but the truth hurts. I cannot tell you the number of times I have been to political events where a politician kisses babies and talks Jesus so the pro-lifers in the crowd get thigh sweats and send the politician to Washington. When the politician takes up with his mistress or pays for an abortion or, as Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC)51% did, undermines the pro-life cause, they are just horrified.
But still they return predictable to the GOP for more abuse and disappointment.
Maybe it is time for a third party to give the GOP competition. Yesterday, the GOP threw its base under the bus. The Republicans who claim to support the pro-life movement, including Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC)51% who claimed she’d vote for the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act after she ensured it would not pass, need to be beaten. Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC)51%, in particular, must be ruined politically even if it means the pro-life community sends a pro-abortion Democrat in her place. They’ll still have improved the seat by replacing Ellmers with someone who is not a damnable liar.
In short, the pro-life movement must stop being the whores of the GOP. The Republican Leadership knows the pro-life movement is in its pocket. They have nowhere else to go. They have no one else to vote for. As much as Republicans look at black voters and tut-tut that they are being taken advantage of by a Democratic Party that knows black voters will not go anywhere, the Republicans are doing precisely the same to pro-life voters.
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FReepers, after what happened the other night with Ellmers et al, what is your opinion?
There are already 50 or more “third parties”, so that isn’t the answer.
Perhaps we need to form a coalition of voters who vote republican, who are willing to “boycott the republican party” in a formal way, a pledge that we are fed up and will refuse to vote for X.
Romney got this in real life in 2012, Cochran in Mississippi faced such a thing, if formalized, we could have a threat that would finally break the GOP open.
We need something that is for sure.
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Yeah, Morgana, I’m ready. I plan to post the response soon of my US rep to my e-mail urging him recently to vote against Boehner.
In a nutshell he replied that there was no one really challenging the speaker in November, and Boehner received fewer ‘No’ votes this most recent vote than he received in November.
After considering that answer, I decided that his position, and the position of other de facto GOP conservatives presumably, is that the GOP simply doesn’t give a damn about social conservatives, considers us to be their (somewhat embarrassing) ‘Cousin Eddies’ and that they continue to humor us (with patronizing e-responses) as long as we continue to fund them and turn out to vote; but otherwise, between elections they just want us to climb into our old RVs and go away, until summoned again.
To hell with that.
I have an idea, tell the democrats “want my vote? Then go pro life!”
Think it won’t work....take a look at this article...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3248979/posts
may work on the local level!!
There is a large and formal pro-life vote, a rigid pro-life vote, even an absolute pro-life vote, perhaps it is time to make that more formal, a little more forceful, more of a recognizable voting block.
“the pro-life movement must stop being the whores of the GOP”
But the GOP of today is nothing but whores for democrats. They know nothing else. They are the street walkers of congress and the senate. Hoping to keep on keepin’ on and get while the gettin’s good.
Where in the world can the pro-life movement go? No one seems to believe a third party is possible. The Tea Party seems to have been effectively neutered by GOP AND the dems.
Looks pretty ugly all around...and not just for pro-lifers.
Decades ago, the pro-life movement should have turned its full force where it really belongs: Electing governors who will NULLIFY the abortion decisions of the Supreme Court.
Amen to that.
It is a principle in the moral law and international law that a command to carry out an immoral action is to be disobeyed.
The abortion decisions are commands to practice unjust discrimination by refusing to afford the protection of the homicide laws to a certain class of people.
In 1973, the Catholic bishops correctly declared that Catholic teaching requires that all public officials continue to carry out their duties as though the abortion decisions did not exist. They promptly forgot about this statement, and aside from handing out Communion to pro-abortion politicians, and devising rationalizations for voting pro-abortion (the “Seamless Garment”) they have barely been heard from since.
The pro-life movement should focus on electing governors and other state officials who WILL treat the Supreme Court’s abortion decisions as what they are: criminal commands—i.e., moral and legal nullities.
long past time. for a second party, that is. a truly grassroots, laser focused on God and His agenda, conservative party.
I try to discern which candidates are staunchly pro-life. This includes third party candidates. If I don’t find one I don’t vote for anyone and my conscience is clear. My wife and I have given up on the lesser of two evils approach. Do not be afraid.
I only know of a tiny handful who have run for executive office on that platform.
Me.
Dr. Scott Lively, I think.
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I’ll get back to when I can think of anyone else
“But the GOP of today is nothing but whores for democrats”
They are just whores.
When you consider that that “strategy” is what is MANDATED by Catholic moral teaching (and international law), the total failure of the Catholic bishops and the pro-life movement even to think along those lines is all the more shocking.
What happened is that the Supreme Court claimed that the Constitution protected a right to kill a baby—so the pro-life movement promptly proceeded to waste 42 years agitating for a Constitutional amendment.
Unfortunately, the March for Life is OFFICIALLY dedicated to the same strategy of barking up the wrong tree.
a test for a candidates Conservative authenticity is if they support taxpayer dollars funding abortions.
You’re absolutely right.
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