you can’t do anything if you don’t have a majority.
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True: But, if you would, please clarify just what it is you mean by “majority.”
Surely, you cannot mean we should merely settle for a majority of elected officials who haven an “R” after their names?
How many times have we been sold down the river by alleged “Rs” who voted “D” . . . When it REALLY mattered?
Answer: Far too often.
We need to elect officials who are uncompromising in their opposition to abortion.
Whether abortion is opposed via Federal or state legislation is a matter for debate. However, in keeping with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, I believe it better legislated at the State level.
Lest we forget, prior to the infamous Roe V. Wade decision, abortion was outlawed in something like 47 to 50 states. Roe v Wade overturned the laws of almost 50 states..., and this country has never since recovered.
Currently, abortion is legally practiced in all 50 states — though, I would hope, not for long here in Texas, Deo Volonte!
make that “47 to 49 states”
I appreciate your point, but if you look at the democRATS, they are all true believers, so their aliegence is never questioned, and the leadership manages to hold the line and enforce party discipline on their members who stray.
Republicans never seem to learn that lesson. The squishy R’s never seem to feel the pressure that they should. Juan McAmnesty and Lindsey Graham leap to mind but there are others as well. Gingrich did enforce some unity/loyalty to a large degree while he was speaker, yet Hastert the Bastert and even Boner never have.
This is really the issue you are addressing, and that is a function of the leader and who is able to manage enough allies to become speaker. The Whip so some degree needs to be the enforcer, and remind those members who go soft, that they will not be around in the next term if they run afoul of the agenda.
I don’t think that announcing their opposition to abortion is going to get ignored my the democRAT media, they will get trashed by the democRAT media, and thus will not get elected at all. Better to not discuss it like the democRATS do, give assurances that they are not going to ban it when questioned like the democRATS do with gun control, and then once elected just go ahead and do it like the democRATS do.
I agree that this is a state issue but we need to win national elections to appoint Federal judges who believe that this is a state issue.
And this is where the problem lies.
As of late, candidates who are uncompromising in their opposition to abortion tend to lose to candidates who are uncompromising in their support of abortion.