Replies

>> > [Amash] sucks at the teat of the L. Ron Paul cult, and votes in the way he figures that Ron Paul would. Amash is far from a social conservative—he refused to vote to defund Planned Parenthood, and then he voted against a bill to ban sex-selection abortions. Amash goes a step further than even Ron Paul in his support for Iran’s dangerous and anti-Semitic regime, opposing any U.S. efforts to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons and becoming Ahmadinejad’s biggest cheerleader and sycophant in Congress; his voting record is reflexively anti-national security, anti-Israel and pro-Islamist terrorist. And like all true Paulbots, he is soft on protecting the border against illegal immigration; I don’t believe that Amash has of yet parroted Ron Paul’s call for legalizing heroin, but give him time. Amash is a true RINO and CINO, running as a Republican and claiming to be a conservative solely because he knows that if he ran as a Libertarian Party candidate he would lose.
It is risible that Amash is seen as a hero by those who decry “career politicians,” given that Amash is the closest thing to a career politician in Congress (at least among those with an R next to his name): he ran for office soon after graduating from law school (I think his experience working in the private sector were a few months helping out at his family business and a year as a corporate lawyer), being elected to the state house as a 28-year-old and then conning MI-03 voters into electing him to Congress as a 30-year-old, where he’s been ever since. <<

------------------------------------------

Excellent points all around, especially with the double standard from the conservatives screaming that all incumbents are bad and are not "entitled" to another term, so they need to be challenged in the primary every election cycle.

So has anyone heard from the "we've had enough career politicians/he's had three terms and nothing to show for it/its time for him to go or be pushed/his conservative ratings are trending downward" crowd on this? Mark Levin? Erick Erickson? Have ANY of them endorsed Amash's primary opponent?

Yet they sure were gung ho and outspoken about removing much MORE conservative incumbents like Mike Enzi and Pat Roberts.

Interesting, isn't it?

Justin Amash

When did Republicans start supporting hate-crime legislation? Hate-crime bills, like H R 3541, are apparently okay if they have to do with a baby’s gender but not okay if they have to do with a person’s skin color or sexual orientation. Or maybe they’re okay if it’s an election year and Republicans are trying to make the President look like he doesn’t care about women. I am appalled and outraged that we would take an issue as sacred as life and use it so cynically as a political weapon.

Republicans, and especially conservatives, should oppose abortion. Period. H R 3541 criminalizes the MOTIVE for getting an abortion. In other words, it keeps all abortions legal except those obtained for the “wrong” reasons. But ALL abortions are wrong. And criminalizing motive makes this simply another hate crime. Literally the only difference between a legal and an illegal abortion under the bill is whether the “abortion is sought based on the sex or gender of the child.”

The bill also shockingly makes it a crime for a medical or mental health professional NOT to turn in someone who they SUSPECT of having committed this thought crime. They can be thrown into prison for a year if they don’t “report known or suspected violations . . . to appropriate law enforcement authorities.” Free societies do not criminalize inaction.

I’m pro-life, and I think all abortion should be illegal. But Congress should not criminalize thought. And this bill won’t stop a single abortion if it becomes law. Every person seeking an abortion simply will sign a form stating her motive is not the sex of the baby. Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. While we waste time on stuff like this, genuine legislation to protect life is ignored.