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To: Jim Robinson
No.

Many accuse many others of being "single issue" voters.

Quantitatively, abortion is what is known in statistics as an "outlier". The act itself is so repulsive, so extreme, so harmful to mother and (of course) child, and so destructive to our collective respect for all human life that its weighting among the various issues skews the results of the political scale. Those who clamor for the WOT as the single issue need to realize that the ideals laid out in our seminal Declaration of Independence - right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness - are precisely the ideals that make America worth fighting for in the first place. To vacillate on the objects of those rights is to undermine original intent and bring in precisely those less noble tendencies toward legalism that have, in recent years, shown themselves as a blight on the American identity in the form of frivolous lawsuits and twisting of the meaning of the law for personal gain. America's reputation for lawsuits has gained dubious international recognition.

Are those self-serving traits of the sort we wish to see further amplified? Are we as a people strong enough to keep a republic whose Constitution "was made only for a moral and religious people...wholly inadequate to the government of any other" (John Adams)?

34 posted on 05/10/2007 8:57:31 PM PDT by Lexinom (http://www.gohunter08.comĀ)
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To: Lexinom

HEAR HEAR

and go Hunter!


39 posted on 05/10/2007 9:00:31 PM PDT by do the dhue (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I wont - George S. Patton Jr)
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To: Lexinom; Jim Robinson
Many accuse many others of being "single issue" voters.

Which is an accusation that doesn't hold up in RG's case because with him it's not a single issue. It's about three: his abortion stance, his gun control stance, and his support of liberal judges when he was NY mayor.
48 posted on 05/10/2007 9:12:02 PM PDT by JamesP81 (Isaiah 10:1 - "Woe to those who enact evil statutes")
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