[xzins]

Lake, I don’t exaggerate about Reagan’s record, nor Romney’s.

Besides, with Reagan we are talking 1967 before the national conversation on this subject. We are also talking about a 3 network media in 1967 that we learned long afterwards contained radical liberals clandestinely pushing the nation to the destination at which we’ve now arrived.

The only group prepared to discuss abortion in 1967 was the Catholic Church and even it was caught flat-footed.

Roe v Wade hadn’t even happened yet, and at the time the exceptions mentioned all were incorporated under “health of the mother” which everyone parsed to “life of the mother”.

The Conscience of a Nation” represents Reagan’s mature understanding of abortion and life. I recall him braving an entirely hostile media AND “hip” culture with his arguement that we should err on the side of life if there’s doubt about the beginning of life. I even remember the gulping sound in his voice when he spoke those lines.

He was a brave man to tackle that head on the way he did.

[Lakeshark]

I think you exaggerate in both cases. Reagan before he was president was unclear concerning his pro-life commitment as a result of his record. In the end he became a genuine warrior for life; yet it is true, he urged the GOP and all pro-lifers to accept the compromise proposed to vote out Roe V Wade., the same compromise you claim won't allow yourself to vote for Romney.

The fact is, you know there is only one way to get rid of Bambi. The fact is clear, this administration is the most pro-death (and pro-everything you say you hate), destructive group ever, yet you pick at this as though somehow the two people are the same. They're not remotely the same.

Reagan was a great president, but when we first voted for him we didn't know how stalwart he would be, what a great warrior for all that is good and right. Just so you know, and this is a fact: In the 80's, he urged people to vote for a bill he said he would sign that included the exception of the health of the mother, then when the purists were winning on the GOP side, he chided them with his famous "Don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good" speech.

I would suggest you could say "Don't let the fear of the unknown (and you do not know) get in the way of taking out the total evil you do know."

If you don't help take him out when you can, it will be hard to live down the evil he and his minions will perpetrate on us all.