Unprincipled endorsements risk aborting prolife cause - ALAN KEYES

Loyal to Liberty ^ | May 7, 2010 | Alan Keyes

[EternalVigilance]

Fiorina said abortion rights would not be her litmus test for approving a Supreme Court nominee.

In November, while speaking at an event sponsored by the conservative magazine the American Spectator, Fiorina said she “probably would have voted for” Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the court. Sotomayor has said she considers abortion rights to be an issue settled by the court.

On Friday, Fiorina said, “I do not believe where a potential judicial nominee stands on that issue is a qualifier or an unqualifier [sic].”

She added that while “many, many voters are going to conclude while that is a very important issue, it is frankly a decided issue,” she said.

“The law is clear in the state of California, where there is a constitutional guarantee to the right to an abortion. So why are we talking about a theoretical issue?”

Carly Fiorina is a “golden parachute enriched” endowed competing to be the California GOP’s nominee against leftist Democrat Barbara Boxer in November’s general election. She claims to be pro-life. She has been endorsed by such reputedly pro-life groups as Susan B. Anthony’s list and the California Pro-life Council (the California affiliate of National Right to Life as well as Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. Yet nothing in her public life or statements justifies these supposedly prolife endorsements. Indeed, the publicly available evidence utterly contradicts them. Her supposed prolife stand reminds me of Obama’s infamous birth certificate. Though the available evidence doesn’t justify what we are being told about it, we should accept it as a fact because others claim to have seen what we cannot.

[Clintonfatigued]

Jeffords, Spectre, McCain, and Scozzafava are pro-abort. Fiorina, while not the ideal candidate, is adequately pro-life and conservative for the constituancy she’s running in.

[CharlesWayneCT]

That’s a fine line she has to walk. Ronald Reagan had built up a lot of conservative credentials in order to survive his pragmatic decisions and remain a conservative icon. There are things Reagan did that today would get any candidate laughed off the conservative stage, but we knew where Reagan really stood.

I guess the question is whether Sarah has built up enough conservative cred to wander off the reservation. Six months ago I would have said sure — watching the supporters on FR, it was clear she could do no wrong with them.

Now, I don’t think she was ever as conservative as they thought she was. I don’t think she’s as conservative as I am. But I don’t think there are a lot of people who are. And I don’t expect my candidates to think exactly like I do.

[EternalVigilance]

adequately pro-life

There is no such thing. You're either dead or you're alive. You're either pro-life or you're not. And Fiorina is not. That's obvious if you look past the surface of lying campaign "positioning."

[TBP]

All these alleged conservatives beating up on Dr. Keyes, one of the most brilliant spokespeople our side has, makes us look excatly like the stereotype the liberals spread of us.