The Republican leadership has been extremely stupid not to have worked behind the scenes to pacify Specter, throw him a bone, and give him another cushy job.
No, this won't go away. And it's virtually certain to have a negative effect in the next couple of elections. It may mean that Republicans in the Senate will drop instead of increasing in 2006.
I've never been one to vote for third-party candidates or to complain if I don't get everything I want. I understand that politicians have only so much political capital and have to spend it wisely. But this fight is absolutely crucial. It's the bottom line. Nothing is more important. We are in reach of turning our courts around. If they blow it, it will disillusion Christian conservative voters with the party for the next 10 or 20 years.
We can't stop them if they decide to go ahead with this. But they would be exceedingly stupid to do so. It will be virtually impossible for them to punish Specter for misbehavior once he has the job. But he will be in a very strong position to punish them, and I expect that he will.
If there is a silver lining here, it's that Specter has been completely neutralized. He will have to give every nominee a vote, and knows he'd better not oppose a pro-life nominee. He understands now, better than before, that a lot of eyes are on him. So does the President.
Cicero, you've got it right. ;o)
From the article: "Mahoney told HUMAN EVENTS his Christian Defense Coalition was still planning to hold a nationwide protest against Specter on December 9. On that day, constituents are encouraged to visit their senators' home-state offices to voice their concerns about Specter."
I'll be visiting mine. To give up this early is to lose for sure. We must fight and fight HARD. I don't think people have given up yet.
Mahoney, a good Christian leader, said: "The pro-family, pro-life voting bloc is almost being viewed by the Republican Party as African Americans are viewed by the Democratic Party. Specter getting to the Judiciary, although it's very disturbing, I think is dwarfed by a larger problem. The Republican leadership truly does not respect nor understand our constituency."
This appears to be true. However, Values Voters do not vote Republican. They vote for those who support their values and then followup with action. If that doesn't happen, the Republican Party will lose in the next elections.
It is becoming more and more evident that there is a growing faction in the GOP that works deliberately against the very reasons we have been Republicans.
It frightens me that these people "on a shining hill" are behaving in an increasingly "in your face" manner to the people who put them where they are.
We also have the media to blame for not printing or airing the wrongs done this country by the left. But then they, too, have been vastly infiltrated.
Is the Internet our last bastion? (By the way, no one has ever answered my question "who owns the internet?").
Are we about to see in the near future the "Potomac Shuffle"? So glad that not all are giving up because we have to let them know that we WILL impose a major destruction on them if somehow these conservative judges aren't in place by next election. I say more & more contacting just so no doubt our intentions.
If so, the childish petulance of those who stay home or vote against Republicans will prove, once again, that the far right has no political sense. Whatsoever.
Have increasingly begun to believe that prayer against the gloabalist traitors kowtowing to the puppet masters is our strongest influence.
They may be complicit with traitors toward a world government; they may be weak kneed and without gonads. Regardless, God can move the heart of the king and certainly lesser characters.
I'm beginning to pray . . . a reluctantly favorite prayer . . .
God, please change them, convert them, move them aside or take them out of . . .