http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/washington/17crisp.html
Posted on 12/30/2007 7:13:43 AM PST by shrinkermd
There was a time when the Republican Party was the ship that flew the banner of the Equal Rights Amendment. Mary Crisp went down with the Titanic, railing about women’s issues to the irate Reagan revolutionaries in the days leading up to the 1980 presidential convention.
All revolutions have their heroines and heroes whose heresies lead them to be burned at the stake,” wrote Tanya Melich in “The Republican War Against Women.” “Mary Crisp was ours.”
It was quite a finale for a woman who was basically a career volunteer, the prototypical ’50s suburban housewife who worked to put her husband through medical school, then retired to raise the kids and donate her services to the community.
In Crisp’s case, her favorite cause was the Republican Party and its local hero, Barry Goldwater. She became so invaluable that she eventually rose to a post at the Republican National Committee and, in 1976, the role of secretary of the party’s presidential convention. (She took her responsibility of reading the roll of the states so seriously that she spent weeks learning the pronunciation of every single delegate’s name in case of a procedural challenge, which never occurred.)
...Crisp said she had done no such thing. But she went to Detroit, where the 1980 Republican convention would be held, bent on continuing the long support of the E.R.A. and in beating back a plank calling for an anti-abortion constitutional amendment. She lost both fights. Incensed, she lashed out in her departure speech to the party’s platform committee, forgoing the traditional words about the good work that she and Brock had accomplished and instead saying that her party was “about to bury the rights of over 100 million American women under a heap of platitudes.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Where is the article on the ‘last of her kind’ the pro-life Democrat?
Oh, the horror we felt when we discovered that the class enemy had infiltrated to the very top ....... years later the NYT would call us the heretics.
Liberalism is a religion and abortion is its’ sacrament.
She went the way of the Dodo a long time ago.
So what happened to Mary Crisp? Is this an obituary, or just a random essay?
and there never will be.
Why would you solve the problem? Why then would the Right to Life voters show up?
Seems to me the abortion issue is trotted out to rile up our voters, a few piecemeal things are passed leading up to an election, and then the issue is dropped.
If the republican party was serious about ending abortion, there could have been something done when we had the presidency, congress and the supreme court.
I just can’t believe the Right to Life folks have fallen for the same bait and switch game for 30+ years. Every 2 years Republican candidates talk about how bad abortion is. And then they spend the next 2 years before the election trying to avoid the issue.
Occasionally they throw the Right to Life folks a bone, but the party elite are never going to end legal abortion because it is not in their political interest to end legal abortion. It’s like Democrats with poverty. Why would they honestly want to help poor folks find jobs and be independent? If the poor found good jobs, independence and self esteem, they would be less inclined to vote democrat. Especially after they start paying taxes!
I have to question the timing, and the source.
I wondered, myself. Never heard of her, but I suppose I'm sorry if she's died.
"...First, there are women, who used to vote disproportionately Republican. (In 1960, for instance, women backed the Republican Richard M. Nixon, with his 5 o'clock shadow, over the dashing Democrat John F. Kennedy.) But in the 1990s, troubled by the Republicans' ardor for the religious right and opposition to social spending, they began voting disproportionately Democratic -- especially single women, working women and college-educated women. In the 2000 congressional elections, single women backed Democrats over Republicans by a whopping 63 percent to 35. Even better news for Democrats: Women are more likely to vote than men.
"...Second, there are professionals, once the most Republican of all occupational groups. In 1960, they backed Nixon over JFK by 61 percent to 38. But as professionals -- including nurses, teachers and actors as well as doctors, scientists and engineers -- have become a larger proportion of the workforce (about 7 percent in the 1950s, and about 17 percent today), they have turned decidedly blue. In the four presidential elections from 1988 to 2000, professionals backed Democrats by an average of 52 percent to 40 percent. The reason: Professionals typically used to see themselves as pro-business entrepreneurs, but by the 1990s, most had become salaried workers, wary of big corporations and the untrammeled free market. Moreover, as members of the post-1960s college generation, the new professionals grew up celebrating Earth Day and Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and admiring the (pre-2000) Ralph Nader.
This article can be found: HERE.
Reading again about the misguided fool Mary Crisp makes me think one thing above all: God bless Phyllis Schlafly!
Just what do you think Republicans could DO to end abortion?
With a 50:50 Congress, I don’t think any anti-abortion measures are going to get very far.
I don't think pro-life Democrats are tolerated any more than pro-choice Republicans are.
The GOP and Nixon brought them into the GOP by abandoning the previous GOP/Mary Crisp positions.
The GOP rode the coalition between the economic elitists and the cultural populists to power.
Unfortunately, the GOP coalition has shattered with the two wings being opposed to each other.
“All revolutions have their heroines and heroes whose heresies lead them to be burned at the stake,” wrote Tanya Melich in “The Republican War Against Women.” “Mary Crisp was ours.”
Nothing like hyperbole.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/washington/17crisp.html
They dug this old hack up in 1980 when Reagan was running and made a big deal about her.
Oh that’s right. Abortion lovers don’t breed.
PRESIDENT IN 2008
Here we are already discussing the future President of the United States in the Year 2008.
For those of you who would like a choice for President, we have a solution: It is probably time we have a woman as President . One choice is a very special lady who has all the answers to our problems.
PLEASE give it a thought when you have a moment...
MAXINE FOR PRESIDENT!
Very eloquently put...........don’t you think?
Maxine on ‘Driver Safety’ ‘I can’t use the cell phone in the car. I have to keep my hands free for making gestures.’.......
Maxine on ‘Housework’ ‘I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.’
Maxine on ‘Lawn Care’ ‘The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.’
Maxine on ‘The Perfect Man’ ‘All I’m looking for is a guy who’ll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.’
Maxine on ‘Technology Revolution’ ‘My idea of rebooting is kicking somebody in the butt twice.’
Maxine on ‘Aging’ ‘Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a Margarita.’
‘I’m telling you ... she’s the perfect candidate.’
‘The only two things we do with greater frequency in middle age are urinate and attend funerals .’
‘The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.’
‘To err is human; to forgive, highly unlikely.’
‘Do you realize that in about 40 years, we’ll have millions of old ladies running around with tattoos and pierced navels? (Now that’s scary!) ‘
‘Money can’t buy happiness—but somehow it’s more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than a Kia.’
‘After a certain age, if you don’t wake up aching somewhere...you may be dead.’
oh puh-lEEEze...spare me THIS bit of tripe. This woman may have been the “last of her kind” (don’t I wish!) and good riddance, I say.
They can make all the blather they want about anti-abortion being a “religious” issue, but the plain and unvarnished truth IS, is that abortion has always been a most basic HUMAN RIGHTS issue from the start for those of us who consider ourselves to be to-the-bone social conservatives. In this day and age of medical technology and advances and with what we know about the pre-born child NOW, there is no longer a single justification for abortion. They know it, we know it. But then, this never WAS about womens’ rights OR womens’ health...Abortion is a matter for the states to handle. Heres hoping the SC will reverse its mistake.
As to the ERA...? Conservatives and conservative WOMEN (although, I didn’t consider myself one at the time) saw this bit of claptrap for what it was at the time. It was given an unprecedented TWO attempts at passage. In all those years, they could not convince the voters (including the women!) that it was a good idea.
I, for one, will not miss the “last of her kind”- nor any of the OTHER “lasts of their kind” as THEY depart the social scene.
I just can’t believe the Right to Life folks have fallen for the same bait and switch game for 30+ years. Every 2 years Republican candidates talk about how bad abortion is. And then they spend the next 2 years before the election trying to avoid the issue. Occasionally they throw the Right to Life folks a bone, but the party elite are never going to end legal abortion because it is not in their political interest to end legal abortion. It’s like Democrats with poverty. Why would they honestly want to help poor folks find jobs and be independent? If the poor found good jobs, independence and self esteem, they would be less inclined to vote democrat. Especially after they start paying taxes!
MEGA BUMP
Most Republican women I know are pro-abortion ( I am sorry to say). I have never met a pro-Life demcorat woman.
So why are we still reading about her loathesome life on the 30th of December?
Probably didn’t need all that baggage down in Hell.
I’ll 2nd that one!! LOL
The French would probably call it nostalgie de la bue.
With attitudes like that we would still have slavery.
Pro-Life Ping
“In the 2000 congressional elections, single women backed Democrats over Republicans by a whopping 63 percent to 35. Even better news for Democrats: Women are more likely to vote than men.”
Ah yes, but what about married women?
Certainly, as society deconstructs, there will be more people voting democrat. They get indoctrinated, usually, in the public schools, get abortions or have a baby out of wedlock, depend on welfare, and live a sort of slave life where there is not a lot of critical thinking going on.
In all seriousness, its much more complex than that. Many of us old school libertarians or even the Paleos are against the enforcement of laws that are contrary to both our constitution and the lifestyle/morals of the citizenry. I don't see how someone who is gay deserves any freedoms other than what is specified in the constitution of our nation, and those of the states. When gays are denied the right to bear arms, free speech, own property, etc., THEN I would be symphathetic. For now, the "love that dare not speak its name" has become that which won't shut up!
As far as abortion is concerned, BOTH sides of the issue fudged up. The pros did so by nationalizing the issue via judicial fiat, at a time when they were making gains in the state legislature. Even Reagan signed the most liberal abortion laws in the country while governor. After Roe V. Wade, the antis made the mistake of arguing from purely moral/religious grounds, even rather stupidly bringing out the "collars" at their rallies. The right tack would be to argue from a purely states rights perspective.
Now for my final tangent: one of the untold stories of the Nixonian "southern" strategy was, although successful in the south, it failed to make blue collar whites in the northeast/upper midwest a permanent part of the conservative coalition. While the latter supported Nixon and Reagan, once the issues of bussing/"law and order" went away, so did their inclination to support the GOP.
If one looks at recent elections in the state of New Jersey, for example, you will see that the GOP was at its strongest in the upper middle class, white, non-Jewish areas of the state (Somerset, Hunterdon, western Morris counties) etc., while the Dems won over the areas where white, blue collar voters are concentrated (central Middlesex, central Union, Gloucester and Camden Counties). This was even the case in the 2006 Senate elections, where blue collar whites supported a Hispanic Democrat (albeit a European-descended son of pre-Castro Cuban immigrants) over the Republican candidate (Kean). Kean even tried to use the immigration issue to win over blue collar whites, but failed to do so.
Back when the only person in Betty Ford was Gerald Ford. I'm so glad that the Republicans of that time have faded away.
Liberals and Clintons corrupt everything they touch.
Correct. You have to generalize when classifying and categorizing.
"blue collar whites in the northeast/upper midwest"
AKA economic populists(democrats) who will sometimes vote GOP over cultural issues such as law and order and/or the second amendment. Another generality of this group is that they tend to be Catholic aka northern Catholics. Both of these groups were Reagan Democrats.
Yes, but the unanswered question is why southern blue collar whites remained loyal to the GOP, while northern blue collar whites generally went back to the Democrats in the 90s/2000s, per election returns. Methinks it was the disappearance of “law and order”/bussing as major issues.
That's not something you will ever see in the Democrat New York Times, especially in the year leading up to an election. The NY Times is in full agenda mode right now, doing whatever needs to be done to help the Democrat party. That includes trying to drive a wedge between gullible women and the GOP with obscure history columns like this one.
nor will there be.. the R’s are no more serious about ending abortin than the D’s... If they were, they would have removed the entire topic of Abortion from the perview of the court the minute they controlled legislative and executive branches.. they did nothing.
It is much more complex than that.
-----
Simple, sincere question: What would you have them do? Specifially.
Hank
***the unanswered question is why southern blue collar whites remained loyal to the GOP, while northern blue collar whites generally went back to the Democrats in the 90s/2000s, per election returns***
The answer would be the influence of labor unions. In the South, unions are weak. While unions are influential in the Midwest. MI, MO, OH, and Pa would be voting like Indiana if Right-to-Work laws were in place.
Those who now want to purge the RINOs have already purged the DINOs, which is why we are in the minority.
With the RINOs gone, the GOP will be down around 30-35% and will never win another national election.
Thing is they could do a host of things. Yet their political survival instincts preclude congress from doing anything like submitting a constitutional amendment banning abortion. It’d never survive committee, granted, let alone get back to the states for ratification, but it would be interesting to see just one congressman actually make a serious attempt to ban abortion.
think about it....if we can push for a Defense of Marriage Amendment, which really affects less than 1% of the population, surely we can find one congressman with the juevos to submit a Defense of Babies Amendment. We spent 2004 defending holy matrimony from the queer menace, yet tens of thousands of babies were still being killed legally...Which tells me something about political priorities of the Republican party.
I suppose they could also try to make performing an abortion a federal crime, or at the very least issue one of those “opinion of the House” resolutions they often use to congratulate the local 4-H winner. Or try to withhold federal highway funds to states which allow abortion, thereby setting up a huge knock down drag out case for the Supreme Court. Or federal education funds.
Think of it...there are so many ways a committed Right to Life congressman could push the issue, if in fact, they really wanted to.
And a Senator who really gave a damn could invoke a filibuster on something just to muck up the works and push the issue into public consciousness. Imagine that, nothing leaves the Senate until we agree to vote up or down on a constitutional amendment banning abortion. (My hunch is we’d lose the vote, but I’m not so sure. In any event we will never know because no Senator will ever take a stand on this issue that has real consequences. But they’ll give plenty of speeches at the local Right to Life club and cheerfully collect donations...)
Thing is there are a host of ways they could bring the issue to the forefront, but that is politically impossible. It’s much easier to talk about it to rile up the base and then tinker around the edges. Ban the most egregious examples, such as partial birth abortion, for example.
But if killing a kid in a partial birth abortion is a crime, why in the world do they allow killing kids in the first place?
I guess I’ve just become jaded by spending a decade and a half voting for “Right to Life” candidates who only remember they are against abortion every other November.
That’s when it struck me...it’s all been a scam.
Republicans will never, ever end abortion. It’s too useful for getting out voters like me and raising cash from people like me.
And Democrats actually like abortion, so no sense going there for help.
And 3rd parties...have fun!
So I’ve come to the conclusion that we as a nation have decided to kill babies and then complain about how bad it is to kill babies every couple years. What a country!
After the Anderson campaign failed, Ms. Crisp directed the political action committee of the National Abortion Rights Action League...
In 1948, she married William Crisp; they were divorced in 1976.
Yeah and of the 46 million Babies aborted ALL were Pro Choice Families Babies and democrats...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.