Abortion, the Economy, and the 2012 Election

"I've got two daughters, 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." -Barack Hussein Obama, March 29, 2008

Conventional wisdom holds that the defining issue of the 2012 U.S. presidential election will be the disastrous state of the economy. Obama's camp knows this and seeks to distract from it -- for instance, by outraged digressions about the purported cruelty with which Obama's opponent treated his dog years ago. Romney's camp knows this, too, and so Romney and his people seek to exploit it. But both sides seem to agree that "it's the economy, stupid."

Or is it? Is the economy the only significant issue facing voters in the coming election? Post-2004 election (Bush vs. Kerry) polls of voters showed that the single most important issue determining the majority of votes was "moral values." In 2004, when the economy hummed along in considerably more comfortable fashion than it does today, voters centered far more attention on right and wrong than on interest rates, taxes, and unemployment. But the following analysis will attempt to show that even in 2012, the economy should not be the only concern for an informed voter. In particular, this piece will discuss abortion as a perennially significant issue in any election, posing and answering three questions:

This article has the force of Godliness behind it. (It's probably a moral absolutes ping). I strongly encourage it be read in its entirety. However, the following excerpt should speak to us about our attempts to distinguish between the liberal party and the conservative party.

From the article.

The above-outlined problems will not go away if people try to brush them aside: "Just replace the incumbent with his opponent, then worry about the rest later." This is like putting out a forest fire by hunting down and then jailing the arsonist, meanwhile ignoring the disastrous blaze now ravaging hundreds of acres of forest. The moral problems noted above will only reappear next election, and the next, and the next. As society becomes more bold in its bloodthirsty refusal to cease dismembering infants, it will continue to elect vicious and corrupt people, and the "right-wing" party will have to shift farther and farther left to satisfy that populace's depraved appetites.
Perhaps this is why the present "conservative" alternative to the incumbent is a man who won the governorship of the most liberal state in the country.
Those who want to apply the Band-Aid therefore defer the issue to the next four years, when it will reappear with greater vengeance.

The Obama Administration, brought to you by Planned Parenthood.

If there is a god, would he bestow prosperity upon a people who make an industry -- even a virtue -- of grinding up unborn babies and flushing them down the toilet?

And who in his right mind would want to live in the universe of such a god?

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