Posted on 08/07/2007 3:46:13 AM PDT by monomaniac
GOD is much pleased... and one wonders HIS thoughts when he looks down upon dims.
LLS
Bumped for TRUTH. ;)
The pro-life vote is by far the single biggest single-issue voting block in this country. The pro-life issue by itself typically gives the candidate 7 points over a pro-abortion opponent.
Moderating or dropping the Pro Life stance on abortion would communicate to American voters that in essence abortion has won over Pro Life, and Leftist ideology prevails. It would be the same as capitulation to the Left, and would purvey a vision of futility to many voters. Suicide for the Republicans.
RINO’s have already made the Republican Party Dem-Lite, and to drop abortion would only reduce any respect for the Party. Wouldn’t be much choice remaining in the view of many of us.
I’m going to a state Republican event tonight. It’s going to be interesting for sure (I live in Illinois). I suspect much of the conversation will be about how we can win back the governorship, the state capitol, and at least one Senate position (beginning with Turban Durbin).
Conservatives do not have enough VOTES to win by
by themslves
Where is the BIG TENT ??
A fellow named George Ryan helped tear that down some years ago. But that's one question I intend to ask.
Thanks for the link.
LLS
I don’t think Giuliani on abortion is that much different from President Bush. The President has never made nationally outlawing abortion even on the top ten of his domestic agenda. The difference is President Bush rose in politics in pro-life Texas and Giuliani rose in politics in pro-choice New York (i.e. they took the majority position based upon the ideology of their states). They both say that Roe v. Wade was judicial overreach by the Supreme Court and that the states should have more latitude to set their abortion laws.
Welcome.
Then, be prepared to be a minority party for years to come if Giuliani is the nominee.
What? Giuliani openly supports abortion rights and has called for taxpayer funding of abortion. He has spoken before NARAL.
He appointed liberal judges by an 8-1 ratio in New York. He has been out trying to redefine what a strict Constitutionalist is by stating one doesn't have to support repealing Roe.
That might have something to do with the fact that the Presidency is within the Executive Branch of the government. Simply put, what you seem to wish him to do is not his job. What he has done is signed every piece of pro-life legislation that has come to his desk, and he has placed on SCOTUS two men who so far appear to be wholeheartedly pro-life. The appointment of Roberts as CJ is especially significant.
Would the abortion loving Giuliani have done the same? Absolutely not. He has said many times that he does not want to see RvW overturned. If Rudy had been sitting in the big chair the last few years we'd have two more freaking Bader-Ginsburgs on the court.
Drop the religious and social values from the party platform, and evangelicals, who make up the vast majority of the base, will simply leave and find another party. The moderates and Libertarians can’t get that through their thick skulls.
Giuliani is an abortionist scumbag!
Giuliani has said he would have signed the partial birth law that Bush signed and that he would also appoint justices like Scalia, Roberts, and Alito.
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