Yeah, sure you did. Let's see the canceled checks.
In the 2000 primaries all the other Republican candidates (Keyes, Buaer, Buchanan, Forbes...)were competing against each other to see who could be the most pro-life by saying such stupid things as "I will outlaw all abortions by executive order within one minute of being sworn in", and "I will only appoint judges who promise to vote to overturn Roe v. Wade", and "I will made abortion a capital offense", etc....
President Bush was being honest with the voters. He said that the abortion laws would never be changed until the hearts of the American people are changed. He refused to promise that he would appoint judges that would overturn Roe; instead saying only that he would nominate strict constructionists.
President Bush has done more to advance the pro-life thinking in America than any other person. He set out to change hearts. His first prime time speech was about embryonic stem cell research, a topic very few Americans had ever heard of.
He created a national dialog, not on whether it was moral to kill a new born baby, or a partially born baby, or a baby in the third trimester; but rather he started a debate on whether it was moral to use an embryo that was already destined to be flushed down the commode.
He moved the football 99 yards in a single play. After months of people arguing the morality of destroying stem cells, it was easy to get a bill passed outlawing partial birth abortion.
Polls show a remarkable shift in the opinion of Americans about abortion since Bush took office.
If Roe is overturned and the states are free to set their own laws, most if not all will outlaw abortion now, thanks to President Bush.
And we have no idea how many millions of abortions did not occur because of the minds that Bush has changed.
In the 2000 primaries all the other Republican candidates (Keyes, Buaer, Buchanan, Forbes...)were competing against each other to see who could be the most pro-life by saying such stupid things as "I will outlaw all abortions by executive order within one minute of being sworn in", and "I will only appoint judges who promise to vote to overturn Roe v. Wade", and "I will made abortion a capital offense", etc....
President Bush was being honest with the voters.
The Sin of Silence:A Defining Moment SEPTEMBER 2000
Our political leaders deal in trivialities and superficial nonsense, practicing the feel-good politics of deliberate ambiguity, while the destruction of our families, the perversion of our most basic moral principals, and the murder of innocent, unborn children goes on, and on, and on.
Those candidates in the presidential primaries who denounced the evil of abortion, and stood unequivocally for moral values, against the corruption of our times, never rose out of single digits in the polls.
And therefore, they were never considered serious contenders in this election cycle, and the moral issues for which they stood were pushed aside in favor of more practical considerations. We have come to this sorry state because Christian voters were more concerned about electability, than about integrity.
The result, to use the words of former President Gerald Ford is, "We have an election in which candidates without ideas, hire consultants without convictions, to carry out campaigns without content."