Posted on 11/22/2012 8:33:27 AM PST by rhema
Not surprisingly, in the immediate aftermath of President Obama's win over Mitt Romney last week, many Republicans bared their fangs at the social-conservative wing of the party, either subtly or not so subtly, blaming the loss on those who vote our values. Now, more than ever, our party needs to hold onto our pro-life, pro-human-rights values. In fact, the Republican Party should become more fiercely aligned to the pro-life position than ever.
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We believe ending legal abortion in our lifetime is possible, and we hold the great abolitionists of the past, such as William Wilberforce, an English politician who led the movement to abolish the slave trade in Great Britain, in high esteem and aim to mimic their fighting spirit in the midst of seemingly impossible adversity.
The Republican Party, my party and former employer, was badly beaten on Nov. 6. Leaders of the party need to do a whole lot of soul-searching. Maybe some need to step aside and let others step into the spotlight and be the new, strong voices of this generation. The leadership of the Republican Party got its nominees in 2008 and 2012. Unlike the Democratic Party's strategy, the "mainstream" Republican Party leaders and donors wanted a moderate candidate, someone "electable." They wanted someone who could straddle the fences and appeal to a majority of Americans. They actively opposed the candidates who were solidly pro-life and wore their values on their sleeves.
The GOP does not need any more moderate candidates. We don't want someone who sticks to the middle ground on social issues. Just ask one of the millions of Republicans who sat out this election because they could not stand behind a moderate candidate.
Where is the William Wilberforce of our day?
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I don't have the latest count of dead babies at my fingertips, but slowing the rate will definitely not happen while obama and his ilk are re-elected.
The media will never help, and we simply do not have the numbers without some crossover.
Romney ran against the party platform on abortion.
Romney ran on rape, incest and “HEALTH” which is abortion on demand, Romney was famously pro-abortion, from a pro-abortion family and background.
Your man sucked and lost to Jimmy Carter the II.
Don’t run a pro-abortion liberal from Massachusetts if you want to win the presidency.
Instead of holding their noses, many simply stayed home. A lot of good this did for the pro-life movement.
I hope not a one of them bitches when Obama replaces Scalia. "Don't blame me! God would curse me if I voted for a RINO!" or "Don't blame me! I voted for Virgil Goode!" Yeah, they can STFU while judge "hack 'em up and suck 'em out" is getting sworn in to SCOTUS.
Yep. The pro-life movement is over. It's finished. Sure hope holding your nose continues to keep the stink out.
Good thing he lost then, right? Now babies can be saved.
“Let’s reject the guy who’s 75% conservative for the guy who’s 0% conservative.”
15% conservative, tops.
If you care, then abandon your fighting for him during this process of preparing for 2014 and 2016.
That 2012 election is over, the choice now is, ‘is the mistake of Mitt, a thing of the past to learn from, or to duplicate’?
The GOP is stuck in an infinite stupid loop:
RUN “MODERATE”
LOSE ELECTION
BLAME CONSERVATIVES
MOVE LEFT
RUN “MODERATE” ...
I've voted in every election since Nixon-McGovern, for RINOs and conservatives, holding my nose and not holding my nose.
Our last two-term Republican presidents were strong pro-lifers and strong defenders of moral rectitude. Our last two GOP Country Club-approved nominees have been milquetoast, nicety-nice gentlemen afraid of taking strong stands for anything other than economic and foreign-policy issues.
Two strikes, GOP country clubbers. Time to get out of the way.
It isn't Romney's fault that conservatives fielded the most sorry-assed pathetic gaggle of losers ever to wallow in a GOP primary. It's little wonder he was able to steamroll over all of them.
>Don’t run a pro-abortion liberal from Massachusetts if you want to win the presidency.
Agree 100%.
However, you don’t allow someone even worse than him to waltz back in to office. No excuse for not voting.
I really doubt Mitt would be bowing to the moslem scum and catering to the shiftless lazy bums voting for barry and his socialists.
Less evil is always better than pure evil.
If you care, then abandon your fighting for him during this process of preparing for 2014 and 2016.
That 2012 election is over, the choice now is, ‘is the mistake of Mitt, a thing of the past to learn from, or to duplicate’?
So far your 2016 politics look just like your 2012 politics.
Once Mittler was nominated, the die was cast. All that was left for conservatives was to wait for election day to determine whose destruction we would be celebrating when the votes were counted. Romney was destroyed. Yay!!! So was spineless and unprincipled money-grubbing posing as conservatism. Want the same result in 2016??? Nominate another babykiller as the GOP nominee. Nominate another supporter of fudge-packing posing as "marriage" as the GOP nominee. Nominate another polo club airhead yearning to farm the suckers of modest income as the GOP nominee. Let another election be wasted trying to protect Muffy's trust fund uber alles to the exclusion of all principled priorities.
This nation and your navy are likely to be ruled by Demonrats unless and until the GOP gets it through its privileged thick skulls that the life of even one unborn baby is worth infinitely more than Muffy's trust fund or her string of polo ponies or her "freedom" to murder the results of her next three social "mistakes." Likewise more important than privileged Brucie's desire to "marry" the nether end of Lance's digestive system and reap the tax benefits they crave.
The GOP will be the party of Western Civilization: moral values, martial virtue, fiscal prudence, self-defense, and the party to which ordinary Americans of modest means may repair, or it is the GOP that will die because it will be intentionally killed by pro-lifers, pro-marriage folks, and others who actually believe in what the GOP elitist airheads like Mittler CLAIM to believe but only to gull the suckers at election time.
What is good for the pro-life movement is to have one major party that is actually and thoroughly committed to the protection of innocent unborn human life. That can be the GOP or not as the GOP sees fit. If not, then the GOP should brace itself for the removal of its base. Most of us have had quite enough of the unprincipled Wall Street suckups who run the GOP through the application of their $$$$ during primary season. Conservatives will reject the GOP-E candidates in primaries and, if that fails, in general elections until the GOP figures this out or dies. It matters not which.
It is not the label of pro-life or of conservative or of the Right that is the damaged brand. It is the label of "Republican" that has rotted to the core and not just with left-wingers. I have no desire to be allied with accommodationist quislings and I have every confidence that I am not alone. Watching what Mittler did in the primaries with all that anonymous Wall Street cash, conservatives were not anxious to see what he would do with four years of federal budget expenditures to pay back his similarly corrupt cronies.
Romney has been destroyed! Now it is time for conservatives to join together and destroy Obozo and his Demonrats and those accommodationist quislings in the GOP (Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, McConnell, Cornyn, ad infinitum, ad nauseam) who are determined to sell their souls for the contributors of $$$$ as usual.
The roots of my being a pro-lifer are found in my Roman Catholicism. The enemies of my Church have been confidently predicting its demise since the very first century AD. They have been disappointed. It is by no means the only pro-life Church within Christianity. There are non-Christian churches that are pro-life (Try to find an abortion mill in Riyadh). There are even non-believers who are pro-life. The world and our nation got along nicely without the GOP before it was created and it will get along quite nicely without the GOP after it dies of lack of principle. After its death, it will be replaced by something far better than what we see today. Federalists, Whigs, GOP all obsessed with $$$$ and that was their fatal conceit.
OTOH, Romney's tactics got him steamrolled in November. Congrats!
Dude, I had no say in putting moron mitt in the primary spot.
He wasn’t my choice.
The simple fact is that one either votes against the democrat party even if your principled hopeful is the one running.
Either vote against barry or be stupid.
Dude, I had no say in putting moron mitt in the primary spot.
He wasn’t my choice.
The simple fact is that one either votes against the democrat party even if your principled hopeful is the not the one running.
Either vote against barry or be stupid.
Dude, I had no say in putting moron mitt in the primary spot.
He wasn’t my choice.
The simple fact is that one either votes against the democrat party even if your principled hopeful is not the one running.
Either vote against barry or be stupid.
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