Issues that Conservatives Should Absolutely NOT Drop #1--Abortion

Abortion is the supreme moral issue of our time. No other issue in the developed world is bigger, no other issue is as comparatively ignored. While we hem and haw about the economy and terrorism and Israel and health care, literally MILLIONS of unborn babies are being aborted each year. Millions. Probably the biggest obstacle the pro-life side has is convincing people that there is an abortion holocaust going on that makes the Nazis look like amateurs, and the Soviet gulag system look like a slap on the wrist. It is the sheer enormity of the issue, the implications of the pro-life argument that life incontrovertibly begins at conception and that abortion is the murder of a human life, that is hardest for people to accept. The implications are heart-rending, staggering, incomprehensible, and too, too real.

In America, one of the most abortion-happy countries in the world, the pro-life side has either dropped the ball on how to present its argument or has been muzzled by a pro-abortion media and a pro-abortion legal system that punishes those who try to air the abortion industry's dirty laundry. Frankly I'm not sure which is true, or if they're both true. Here are some of the myths pro-lifers tell might themselves:

MYTH: If I take a public stand on this issue, I'm seen as a freak, as anti-woman. REALITY: A majority of the US population, including a majority of women, considers themselves pro-life. Just because the pro-abortion media tries to depict you a certain way, you should not be scared of being labeled a certain way. If the only pro-life faces most complacent people see are the occasional "clinic" bomber, and they never see you, peacefully extolling the virtues of the right to life, then by staying silent on your position you are helping to paint pro-lifers as extremists.

The Right to Life is more popular than trickle down economics.

The Right to Life is more popular than the Iraq War.

So why is it the Right to Life that so many Republicans say should be abandoned in order to ‘gain votes’?

#2 ALL OF THEM.

How in the world did Republicans become brainwashed into believing the way to win votes is by dropping things?

Are democrats dropping anything?

Is Obama dropping anything?

Republicans don’t do anything EXCEPT dropping things. That’s the problem.

Take the conservative stance on all the 'single-issue' issues, and use those pillars of the Republic to support a big tent for all conservatives, no matter how 'hyphenated' they may view themselves as being.

It would be a great step back toward a Constitutional Republic, and something I think America is ready for.

“So why is it the Right to Life that so many Republicans say should be abandoned in order to ‘gain votes’?”

I can only speak for myself, but I don’t think anyone wants to abandon the pro-life plank in our platform. It’s a primary issue to some, and not to others. That is just the way things are at this point in time.

My personal view is that there are two basic, and proven since ancient times, essentials in securing life for those who are here, and those are sound economics and defense. Without either of those being adequate, the societal fabric will degenerate into chaos. This is why these two issues are at the top of my list right now, as compared to a debate we’ve been engaged in for 37 years without resolution; gaining a little ground only to lose it again after a disaterous election because the economy went south.

The only way to have a permanent affect that we desire is we have to persuade people who are not persuaded thus far to our way of thinking, and we haven’t done it yet.

On the other hand, if we can win the debate about state’s rights and the need for the federal government to respect state soveriegnty and limit itself to delineated powers, even if over economic issue, we might be able to have the precedence we need to overturn Roe v. Wade.

I think "Rush was right" many years ago when he said that you can not legislate morality. You have to change people's hearts. I think that is what is happening on the abortion issue. 3-D sonograms and the advances in neonatal medicine have exposed the lie that a fetus is just an "unviable tissue mass". Obama's extremism on the issue is also getting a lot of publicity so that people can see for themselves just how eager the pro-choice crowd is to murder innocent babies. Even if the baby survives the procedure, it should be left to die uunattended just because the mother had intended to kill the baby in utero. That is truly an EXTREME position!

Wasn’t the Obama position even worse than that? I think the issue that spawned the laws that were being debated in Illinois was that a woman had given birth to a baby that needed medical care and she didn’t want it so it was left alone to die.

The substance of the legislation he advocated was the result of political debate, you know all of those ‘what if’ kinds of scenarios that should be considered. I don’t, for one minute believe that he felt there was anything at all wrong with what happened to that baby, and joined the debate in attempt to preserve his pro-death stance for unwanted children.

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