[cajungirl]

Hey, good post.

FR has become the home, bastion, fort of the prolife fanatics who would visit their definitions on all of us by law.

I have seen some morph into calling birth control abortion. I am expecting any day to read that no sexual act that doesn’t result in a baby is sinful.

This one issue, deeply felt by some, is not the burning issue of the day to others. Surely not the issue on which decent people should be damned.

Like Thompson. I think he did well. If he had said that the whole abortion issue was not an issue that he thought was worthy of comment, I would have still felt he did well.

[samtheman]

This one issue, deeply felt by some, is not the burning issue of the day to others.

Absolutely. These single-issue-fanatics would sooner let Hillary run the country and invite nukes falling on our heads than admit for one second that there are any other issues worthy of consideration other than their single, over-riding concern.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

FR has become the home, bastion, fort of the prolife fanatics who would visit their definitions on all of us by law.

There is nothing wrong with being fanatical about the pro-life issue. Strategy seems to be the sticking point. If we do not have life, we have nothing.

[MinuteGal]

Has anyone noticed that almost every discussion thread on GOP candidates, or discussion or debate on their appearances on interview shows, or articles on their positions on important issues of the day is almost immediately hijacked by prolifers promoting their single-issue agenda? This thread is a prime example.

It's getting to the point of being ridiculous and offputting to readers here.

And the sad part is that if those of us who are just as pro-life as the determined spammers express our dismay or outrage at the never-ending, repetitive volleys and hi-jackings, then we are not true conservatives but "baby killers" just like Rudy, Romney, Fred, and almost the whole list of GOP hopefuls.

The positions of candidates on a variety of world and domestic issues worthy of discussion here are almost immediately drowned out by the ceaseless, determined one-issuers who pounce right away to change the whole course of a very good original thread into their own personal forum for their one-issue soliloquys.

And it will only get worse in the coming weeks leading up to the primaries. Do the issues of Iraq, Iran, the economy, the price of oil, etal mean anything at all to you single-issue folks?

I'm sure the dedicated freepers who actually post the original articles themselves become crestfallen when they post an article on the candidates' positions on Cuba or terrorism, for instance, only to see their posts turned into abortion threads very quickly. I'm sure most readers are crestfallen also, and stop reading the thread as their eyes begin to glaze over.

I'm addressing this post to those good folks who wrongfully assume that every single primary campaign thread is their own private forum for their own single issue and the hell with everything or anybody else, especially all us baby-killers and impure conservatives out here.

I think a helpful solution would be a regular pro-life thread devoted to that subject exclusively and the existence of which would most certainly please just about everyone.

Leni