Posted on 11/27/2012 5:57:00 PM PST by NKP_Vet
Former presidential nominee John McCain is urging Republicans to confine their support for the unborn to rhetoric but abandon thoughts of enacting new legislation.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday over the weekend, the Arizona senator said the GOP needs “a bigger tent” to be successful in presidential elections, and part of that means dropping social issues important to conservatives.
Echoing the talking point that men should not weigh in on a female issue McCain said, “I don’t think anybody like me —” then pointed to himself before changing gears abruptly. “I can state my position on abortion, but other than that, leave the issue alone, when we are in the kind of economic situation and, frankly, national security situation we’re in.”
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Plus, it’s akin to saying that single people shouldn’t be able to object to a husband killing his wife for the insurance money.
I don't believe this is true. The one's I've seen have been mostly families, equal parts husbands, wives and children. I strongly doubt a majority of women (or men for that matter) support Akin's and Mourdock's individual positions on rape and abortion, --a doubt that's reenforced by both men's dismal Election Day performances.
Good grief, what is wrong with your brain?
The difference here is not a difference of opinion. You are advancing the idea that a guy who spent every stump speech and ad talking about the economy and even managed to make economic growth plans an important topic of conversation in a foreign policy debate somehow lost because he was too busy thinking about abortion to let voters know how he felt about the economy.
You might as well have posted that the Clinton Administration didn’t have any scandals or that the Marx brothers should have tried making some comedy movies. You’re either blind, brain damaged or a troll.
It’s the same old RINO crap: We can win without you dipstick jerk social conservatives...oh crap, we lost, it must be because we spent too much time wooing those social conservatives. If you can’t think better than that, go over to DU. In a shocking “coincidence,” the libs think the GOP should give up social issues too, because it will help conservatives get elected. Aren’t they nice to help us out like that?
The professional political class of both parties is SCUM. Vile, nasty, criminal, evil SCUM.
There are a few Republicans who are honest and principled. A few. But not one Dem is.
The rest look worse than street whores and dope dealers.
Agree....I believe we lost one of our few principled, truly Christian warriors when we lost Allen West.
Sorry, John. I don’t answer to you on the life issue.
I doubt if Allen West is going to quietly fade away. We need principled FIGHTERS like him.
FIRST!
You have to get yourself elected.
strongly agree.
as Scott McNeely used to say “put all the wood behind one arrow”...
Not ignorant. Stupid. So stupid, that he was notorious in every branch of the Armed Forces. And we were so stupid to think that it was merely funny.
Is there one politician I despise more than Harry Reid? Um, I’m gettin’ there.....
That would be the 50% who are some mans' son, as opposed to the other 50% who are some mans' daughter.
In the worst way.....I pray you’re right.
Pass a Constitutional amendment to protect life and this issue won’t come up again in the campaigns McFly.
Well, if that is the goal, then why don’t we just adopt the whole Democratic platform and be done with it? We’ll get elected, and then we can ignore what we told the voters and do whatever we want, right?
In my experience, the candidates who are least willing to talk about social issues on the campaign trail are also the candidates who are least likely to do anything about social issues once they get elected. After all, the voters didn’t care about social issues enough to elect someone else last time, so why should the politician worry that he will have to answer to them on social issues next time around?
So, saying, let’s be pro-life, but just not talk about it, is equivalent, to me, to saying, let’s just forget about ever achieving any pro-life legislation. We can be pro-life in our own lives, but we’re going to just have to accept that abortion is here to stay and there’s nothing we can do about it. In other words, let’s concede defeat without actually admitting to ourselves that we are conceding.
I’m not a McCain fan.
BUT!
He has a ZERO percent rating from the baby-killing lobby NARAL.
On that issue, he is not wishy washy.
Sure, but he’s one politician. You can’t predict the behavior of all politicians based on McCain (thank God!).
I’m not going to assume a politician is going to vote pro-life just because they have an R next to their names. Also, if they are afraid to state (and make the case for) their beliefs in public, then they are probably not fit for office anyway. We need streetfighters who are not afraid to mix it up with the commies, not polite glad-handers who are afraid of offending selfish women.
So, we are supposed to be quiet while the other side screams for abortion from the rooftops? I don’t think so.
Nope. Just get the majority and then quietly kill all their beloved abortion infrastructure.
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