Me too.
Of course, the counterargument is, "But a Dem will get elected if enough people do that!" As if that's an irreversable event.
I'm thinking long term. It's time to get off the slippery slope now, and give the GOP a wake up call before it's too late to do that.
"Me too.
Of course, the counterargument is, "But a Dem will get elected if enough people do that!" As if that's an irreversable event.
I'm thinking long term. It's time to get off the slippery slope now, and give the GOP a wake up call before it's too late to do that."
Not only that, but think clearly: Republicans are in power, and the pro-life cause is exactly where it was when the Dems were in power: at zero. We already have abortion on demand. Yes, the partial birth abortion ban was passed, but that's showboating if you know that the Court is going to strike it down and you are not, in turn, going to strike the Court down by limiting its jurisdiction (or overriding the filibuster to install a pro-life judiciary when you can).
Just like everything that was done in the Terry Schiavo case was showboating. They sure ran up a dangerous amount of credit on the pro-life side, but then, when the pro-death partisans did not flinch or blink, the Republicans completely backed down and caved. The Republican judges caved at all levels. The Republican Senators in Florida caved and did not pass the bill needed to protect her life. Congress talked a good game of subpoenas and a law that demanded de novo review, but those subpoenaed blew off Congress to its face, and suffered no retaliation. Indeed, they became heros of the pro-death movement overnight.
And then there are the Bush boys, where the buck stops.
They talked a good game, making it clear they at least understood the moral issues. But when it came to a choice of defending an innocent citizen from a judicial murder and provoking a hellstorm of protest for doing it, or washing their hands of the matter and saying they had done all they could do, they celebrated Easter by aping Pontius Pilate.
With that sort of catastrophic failure at every level, we are exactly where we would be with the democrats. Terri is dead, babies are still being murdered daily, and there is no will whatsoever to wrest political control from the Judiciary to get to a pro-life solution.
The Nuclear Option could have gone a long, long way towards repairing the rift. But what happened instead was that Frist, the man who has to press the nuclear option button, just stepped forward and supported the judges who murdered Terri Schiavo.
So, when the Republicans scream and scream at someone like you that you will lose it all if the Democrats take power, because you sit the next one out, the response should be an even and honest and true statement of the facts: the pro-life movement has already lost at all. We remain at zero, where we have been since 1963.
What will happen, really, is that the REST of the Republican agenda: low taxes, deregulation, strong gun rights - THAT will all come crashing down to the ground under the Democrats, AND life won't be protected either.
Well, life isn't being protected under the Republicans, so from a pro-life perspective, the rest of the pro-life "allies" - faithless allies who failed utterly in the clutch - will be down at zero with us.
We still don't have to go marching off the cliff.
The Senate has to pass the Nuclear Option, and they have to do it NOW. Otherwise the coalition is well and truly finished.