Posted on 06/03/2009 4:34:26 AM PDT by steve-b
Before recent events, I intended to write about the GOP's message problem with the headline: "Shoot the Messenger."
Sunday's fatal shooting of abortion doctor George Tiller makes my title inappropriate, but the idea remains relevant.
The adage, of course, is "Don't shoot the messenger," meaning we shouldn't necessarily blame the person who delivers bad news. For the Republican Party these days, however, the problem isn't so much the message. It's the messenger.
By grotesque coincidence, Tiller's murderer furthers the point.
It has long been a problem for the GOP that some of the party's cherished positions are embraced most enthusiastically by people whose grip on reality is sometimes . . . tenuous. This is especially true with regard to abortion.
There are certainly compelling secular arguments against abortion that one might be perfectly willing to hear. Then Randall Terry shows up.
Terry, the colorful founder of Operation Rescue, doesn't represent the Republican Party, but he is nevertheless the most familiar face of the antiabortion movement. When President Obama recently gave the commencement address at Notre Dame, who showed up to lead the protest but Terry and the equally odd carnival performer Alan Keyes?...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Kathleen Parker clucks her tongue at those who would protest and seek to stop the murder of innocent babies, but you can be sure she is mourning the death of the genocidal George Tiller.
Meanwhile, there will be more babies born in Kansas as a result of Tiller being aborted in the 272nd trimester.
Just use the liberal line: Karma.
The wheel turns. It all comes back around.
Karma’s a *itch.
You know, the GOP needs to get a handle on language usage. Straightforward and to the point can be straightforward and to the point even if it uses the enemies tactics.
Plus, she makes no mention of the nurses who assisted and their children who might also be in danger of being murdered.
Alan Keyes has more class, dignity, brains, and integrity in his left pinky than Kathleen Parker has in her entire body!
Not that the left is interested and would not fail to castigate the other reasons if voiced, but I’m quite sure there are a great many folks in the pro life movement, who are not only concerned with the life of those yet unborn, the millions upon millions who have not been born due to the manufactured “right” of abortion, but the curse of God upon nations in the past who have used children as a sacrifice upon the altar, be it convenience or religious false God.
The Wrath of God is not to be trifled with if one desires to live a life of liberty. I would venture to say that another of God’s commandments, is in the mix when one gives thought to cosmetic/conveniece abortion. We are certainly fortunate in some respects that God is a God of Mercy.
I should think that it's obvious -- intimidation attacks on family members are Terrorism 101.
More often than not, inflame the base or boil(the blood of) the base is more accurate.
It seems odd that we must call Islam the Religion of Peace, in spite of rampant evidence that Islam spawns more terrorists that Carter has liver pills, but when a lone nut kills an abortionist, somehow the entire pro-life movement can be painted with the same, lunatic broad stroke.
As denial is to addiction, so hypocrisy is to liberalism.
Yeah, pretty much. It's so much easier than exercising actual leadership, dontcha know....
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