Hi Golden. Excellent comment above and excellent post. I'm not well-versed in the matrix, so I've got some watching to do.
In any case, I like the information about how the GOP operates that's near the beginning of this article. Unfortunately, it and its intro is larger than the 300 word "excerpt" size we're allowed to post, so I just posted the entire article.
There is an article on the site...I think by the same author...about Gary Johnsone being "limited pro-choice". As I understood it, that boiled down to RILOM Pro-life (rape, incest, life of mother).
I don't believe in any abortion and think any emergency should require an attempt at an emergency delivery. An abortion is always an attempt to kill the baby, and a delivery is always an attempt to preserve the baby. My position is "pro-delivery".
The article you posted motivated me to check out Gary Johnson's campaign website, and to check on his stand on the abortion issue. It says he supports legal abortion up to the point of fetus viability. To me that is just a position cleverly crafted to attract votes from both the pro-choice and pro-life sides.
Pro-choicers can say, O, he supports a woman's right to murder the child in the womb up to a certain point, and that makes me feel good.
Pro-lifers can say, O, he supports the intercession of the state to guard the life of the most innocent defenseless of our citizens, after a certain point, and that makes me feel good.
It is not a principled stand. The sentiments you voiced on the abortion issue, that is a principled stand.
About the author's views on the operation of the GOP, these are just too cynical and one-dimensional, believing that the behind the scenes leadership is a seamlessly corrupt cabal interested only in wealth, power, and control. If that were true, that would leave us with no hope. And I believe that any point of view that leaves us with no hope, is a thrust of the darkside itself to manipulate people into retreat, and into abandoning their position on the battlements.
In the Republican Party alone is the hope that the abortion holocaust can be turned around.
We certainly have a fight on our hands now to hold that ground within the Republican Party itself, and that is one of the most important reasons to oppose the nomination of Willard M. Romney to be our standard bearer.