GOP sits out Texas abortion fight

Politico ^ | 07/02/2013 | By DAVID NATHER

[dfwgator]

Texas should pull out of the GOP and start their own party.

[sport]

That is not surprising. The GOP stays out all fights, including the fight for freedom.

[cripplecreek]

We’re pretty much used to fighting on our own here in Michigan.

Sometimes I think we’re better off without them.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The GOOBers are still waiting to pick their fights. They haven’t seen any that they like yet. LOL!

[DLfromthedesert]

This is a state issue; no need for the national party to get involved.

[dfwgator]

Seriously, if you want a third party, this is the only viable way it will ever happen, if a major state defects there delegation from the National GOP, other states will follow suit and join them.

[Mark17]

The term, “stupid party,” is well earned.

[attiladhun2]

The GOP-Washington elites are taking the party down to oblivion, which is where they want it to go, I think. Then they switch to being Dems while telling us “the Republican Party has moved tooo far to the right,” when there is not even a hint of evidence for that.

[Count of Monte Fisto]

The GOPe would like to see conservatives aborted.

[attiladhun2]

“Gutless Party” is a more accurate description.

[cripplecreek]

The big money GOP donors are almost all for gay marriage, abortion, and open borders and that is who the GOP looks to for guidance.

[snowstorm12]

a lot of these state abortion restrictions, like targeted abortion regulations that only apply to abortion clinics, will be struck down by the supreme court eventually, probably soon, anyway.

[grimalkin]

Weak cowards. Just call it what it is: murder. No need for flowery words or shoving your feet in your mouths. Yes is yes and no means no.

[pgkdan]

On the right: Rick Perry’s holding down the fort without much obvious help from national Republicans.

Of course. Rick Perry is a MAN...national Republicans are spinelss eunuchs.

[88keys]

This is a state issue; no need for the national party to get involved

My thought exactly.

[88keys]

"The big money GOP donors are almost all for gay marriage, abortion, and open borders and that is who the GOP looks to for guidance."

What makes you think this? I don't understand why any "big money" donors would give money to a party whose platform is in opposition to their preferences.

[cripplecreek]

What makes you think this?

I do the research and find out what they think rather than letting someone else tell me. The real question is why don't you know it?

[ansel12]

After having a 2012 candidate who openly opposed the party platform on abortion, I think people need to find out what the national republican party position on abortion really is.