Posted on 01/09/2010 5:15:11 AM PST by PurpleMountains
The other day a Republican leader was talking about the divide between conservatives and moderates that threatens the viability of the Republican Party and threatens our ability to win absolutely necessary elections in 2010 and 2012. If they pass Obamacare and/or Cap & Trade, we must have a Republican majority in Congress in place in January, 2013, and a Republican president as well in order to kill these terrible ideas.
In speaking of a so-called, “litmus test” for Republican contenders who will be acceptable to conservatives and Tea Party supporters, he went on to say that abortion is the issue that divides conservative Republicans from moderate Republicans. I strongly disagree. Although I am personally opposed to abortion, I would never reject a person who demonstrates traditional, conservative views on the role of government because he differs from me on this one issue, abortion.
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Abortion is not one issue, acceptance of it makes it clear that the person in question does not hold conservative, traditional values. We will have to find some other area to compromise, it won’t be abortion for too many of us.
I completely disagree.
If the MOST basic principle regarding the the right to LIFE is discarded, there is NO solid foundation for all other principles.
I respectfully, but strongly, disagree with your thinking on this.
If you are willing to overlook millions of dead babies in order to save a few lousy scraps of fiat paper issued by a corrupt government, you deserve everything the Marxists will do to you, and more besides.
> If the MOST basic principle regarding the the right to LIFE is discarded, there is NO solid foundation for all other principles.
This is precisely the point. Over the years, I have tried (usually to no avail) to make this point understood to those who call themselves conservative.
My conclusion has been that they're too concerned about "offending" their pro-abortion colleagues and friends and want to come across as "reasonable" and open to compromise. This has the opposite effect -- instead, the liberal thinks, "This guy doesn't have a whole lot of gumption -- we can use this to run roughshod over him whenever we want, for ANY of his political/moral positions." And it works. Those semi-conservatives continue to enable this behavior in liberals, never realizing how they allow themselves to be had.
“This has the opposite effect ...
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!
“If you are willing to overlook millions of dead babies in order to save a few lousy scraps of fiat paper issued by a corrupt government, you deserve everything the Marxists will do to you, and more besides.”
AMEN!
To me; Abortion is the taking of innocent Human Life.
Why should taxpayer(s) be forced to fund this madness? Where’s our choice?
Not a religious question at all. The Federal Government should not be paying for elective surgical procedures, including abortion, sex change, breast enlargement etc etc.
That’s the way it should be proposed and it will pass. Leave your personal religious belief out of this and you have a chance at success. Continue to push your religious beliefs on other people and you will fail.
In reading many of the above comments I have to conclude that most did not even read my article, only the lead-in.
Poll after poll has shown that the public opposes taxpayer funded abortions and partial birth abortions and that the public supports parental consent laws.
More to the point, the prolife voters are FAR more motivated than the “pro-choice” voters.
If you take the number of people who vote “single issue” prolife and subtract from that number the people who vote “single issue” “pro choice” the prolife side has an ADVANTAGE of 3% to 8% MINIMUM all over the country!
Yes, being prolife can hurt in fund raising, especially on the Democrat side -— but among the voters, the prolife position is ALWAYS a WINNER!
Neil Bortz and other Libertarians are free to hold whatever views they hold, but they display pure ignorance, on the politics of this matter.
“Being “pro-life” is an ADVANTAGE in every single district in the country!”
Yes, I agree. But will YOU support a Republican primary winner who is for saving the republic, but has no interest in overturning a law on our books for 37 years?
We are at risk of losing our country right now.
However, such a Republican MUST do something, to help keep the ranks together.
Oppose taxpayer funding or SOMETHING!
But, as I tell the radicals on the Prolife side: A nuclear war will kill ALL of us, babies and adults alike!
You are correct, national security does eclipse abortion!
I agree with the majority of voters. I WILL NOT support any candidate who is even vague on pro-life. Life, in all its stages, must be protected. I will vote for a candidate who does not share my views on taxes, national security, the environment, energy, anything, if he/she is completely pro-life. Palin and her LIFE CHOICE for her son speaks volumes.
The poster who proposed the idea of non-elective surgeries, may be on to a short term solution—as in get through 2010 election— but that is as far as that will take us. There is a strong and growing movement who now “gets it” about life and the value of it. That movement understands that the slope of abortion leads to euthanasia and the current implications of those non-existent “death panels” within our soon to be healthcare system.
There is no more time left for compromise. The time has come to stand our ground.
It really comes down to how they would vote for judges. We should IMO support candidates who are likely to vote to approve judges who would overturn Roe v. Wade, regardless of how they personally feel about abortion.
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