Posted on 02/20/2008 4:50:08 PM PST by Mr. Brightside
Wisconsin Exit Polling Data- 74% of Republicans Pro-Life on Abortion
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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
February 20, 2008
Madison, WI (LifeNews.com) -- Exit polling data from the Tuesday primary in Wisconsin shows the Badger State is like most others in that a strong majority of Republican voters take a pro-life stance on abortion. With Wisconsin in the mix, the number of states with a pro-life Republican majority jumps to 17 out of 22 that have voted thus far.
The exit polls found 74 percent of Republican voters in Wisconsin say they are pro-life while just 25 percent say they favor keeping abortions legal.
Looking at the pro-life side, 27 percent say they want all abortions illegal and another 47 percent say they want most abortions illegal.
On the pro-abortion side, 16 percent want most abortions to remain legal while just 9 percent of Wisconsin Republican voters side with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in saying all abortions should be legal.
As has been the case in previous primary elections, pro-life voters in Wisconsin gave a significant boost to Republican candidate Mike Huckabee to bring him closer to McCains vote total.
However, unlike in recent primaries, Huckabee did not capture a majority of the pro-life vote.
Among pro-life voters, McCain led on a 47 to 43 percentage margin. The Arizona senators ability to gain support among moderates and independents allowed him to capture a 65 to 14 percent lead among pro-abortion Republicans.
Huckabee won among the pro-life voters who want all abortions illegal with a 61 to 33 percent lead, but McCain won among pro-life Republicans who want most abortions illegal, with a 56 to 33 percent advantage.
Looking at Wisconsin, a Survey USA poll released on Monday finds that 43 percent of all voters there take a pro-life position while 54 percent take a pro-abortion position.
McCain has a lot of faults, but his record on life issues is satisfactory.
According to McQueeg, it's called "pandering" only when applied to conservatives. McC has no problem pandering to illegals
McCain chose a dual-loyalty traitor to be his "Hispanic Outreach Director." Talk about pandering-----McCain said he chose Hernandez because he agrees with his positions.
Juan Hernandez was born in Dallas and decided as an adult to become a dual-national Mexican citizen. His last verifiable job was serving in Mexican President Vicente Fox's cabinet as Fox's "American Reconquista Director."
Hernandez then worked for Bush hater George Soros' international foundations---(one such foundation published Hernendez's book that taunts Americans).
Hernandez believes all illegal Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the USA should become dual citizens and consider themselves Mexicans first, "to the 8th generation."
The "New American Pioneers" proclaimed in his book are the illegal alien invaders he urges to become settlers in the USA for "Reconquista"---the plan to take back the SW.
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Another group now backing McCain is Billy Kristol (Fox pundit) his daddy, and their crowd---who are cheerleaders for the current admin's most destructive polices---including the twice-failed illegals amnesty plan.
The Kristols are also the architects of Giuliani's failed strategy to religiously cleanse the Repub party and kick conservatievs to the curb. They switched to McCain when their boy Giuliani tanked like a deadweight going down a 300 ft cistern.
Or the voters were aware that no other prolife candidate had a chance of winning.
When his pro-life credentials get challenged is when the nose-dive will really begin. They’ll get him on the defensive, just as they did Dole. (Who had nothing to be defensive about.)
Honestly, I think Kristol’s been for McCain all along.
For him in 2000, for him in 2006 and 2007 and for him now.
But egads, even I am for him when the other guy is Obama.
Liz, have you ever read about Kristol's earlier support of McCain? Back in about 2000, Kristol and Marshall Wittmann started something called the Project for Conservative Reform (aka Kick Conservatives to the Curb Project). Seems like some of the same folks that ended up being involved in the Reform Institute (Houghton, at a minimum).
McCain may leave Republican Party to fight Bush in 2004
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The option is being discussed by McCains inner circle of advisers and some of his backers have begun setting up policy think-tanks and other groups to lay the ideological foundations for another third-party challenge in the Bull Moose style.How Bill Kristol ditched conservatism. Great EscapeThe Project for Conservative Reform at the Hudson Institute has assembled a group of what it calls Mooseketeers, while keeping up a steady stream of criticism aimed at Mr Bush for his reliance on corporate cash.
Having lost control of the Senate after the defection of Senator James Jeffords earlier this year, the White House is sensitive to the threat that the Arizona senator could also leave the party. Any such move would almost certainly deny Mr Bush a second term by splitting the Republican vote.
Mr Bush is also facing mounting pressure from moderates within his party who, like Mr McCain, are at odds with the tough conservative line taken by the Republican leadership.
We are making life tougher for the leadership, Amory Houghton, one of the most prominent Republican moderates in the House of Representatives, said.
Mr McCain campaigned energetically for House Republicans during the election and some are coming to see him as their natural leader.
In the past, the House Republican moderates were the most docile group in town, Marshall Whittmann, a McCain adviser and the director of the project for Conservative Reform, said. Thats changing.
Alienated from the GOP leadership--and convinced by the 1996 elections that its libertarian politics couldn't win-- [Bill] Kristol and [David] Brooks unveiled national-greatness conservatism. There was only one problem: No one, perhaps not even Kristol and Brooks, had a clear idea of what the phrase meant.... As Wittmann has written on his website, conservativereform.org, "[C]onservatism need not be defined by K Street. As we pursue tax cuts, it seems reasonable to focus on middle-class relief such as cutting the payroll tax." Says Kristol, "I don't have any problems with the safety net." Which raises a question. If national-greatness conservatism scorns the Christian right, jettisons the struggle to shrink government, and champions an idealistic foreign policy more likely to be supported by The New York Times than Dick Armey, in what meaningful, contemporary sense is it conservatism at all?
If you haven't seen much of this heresy in the pages of The Weekly Standard, that's because on domestic policy Kristol and Brooks have become a minority in their own office. Unable to turn the Standard into a vehicle for their movement, they've essentially stopped writing about economics and social policy. Ironically, as its top editors have inaugurated one of the most interesting Beltway debates in years, the magazine has grown less interesting. Instead, Kristol and Wittmann have started a think tank called the Project for Conservative Reform, run out of the Hudson Institute, with the sole purpose of developing position papers for their movement. And Brooks's next book will aim to infuse national-greatness conservatism with some needed marrow.
How, indeed, can this be called conservatism.
These elite plutocrats are disgusting---you'd think they'd be content w/ the power they now have. Not by a longshot. They will not rest until they wrest control of every political system and agency, and destroy the entire American political process, as we know it, in the bargain.
They spring from the Everything-For-Us-Nothing-For-You wing of American politics.
No question, these types have their claws into lotsa politicians---they operate in secret, insinuating themselves into the political process advancing their super-secret agendas. Only a select few are in on it--we peons are left in the dark.
The elitist contempt they show for conservatism and all we represent will not go unchallenged. They can kick conservatives all they want---we are not going anywhere. This is our party and we're sticking with it.
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(Man, the clan is cutting and pasting this post like crazy. O-o-o-o, I'm so askerd. ROTFLOL.)
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