Posted on 01/26/2015 5:14:10 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
The new Republican Congress is weak and has almost no unity. What their message or agenda is changes almost daily. You would think though that Republicans could be counted on to defend the rights of the unborn. You would even like to think that Republicans could successfully present a case against infanticide. Unfortunately, the Republicans can’t even get behind a bill that would ban infanticide. House Republicans proposed a bill that would ban the abortion of babies over 20 weeks. Such a ban is popular among the general public. They even allowed for an exception for rape and incest, which while popular among the general public still results in the murder of an innocent baby. Unfortunately the Republicans caved to the war on women crowd because the bill required that a rape be reported to the police. Apparently that’s asking too much of a woman seeking to murder her baby. Afraid of the Democrats crying war on women, the GOP withdrew the bill.
It is utterly absurd to not require the reporting of a rape to police in order to qualify for an exception to a 20+ week abortion ban. In fact, the reporting requirement should require the rape be reported within 2 weeks of the alleged rape. The reason to make such a stringent requirement is clear. Abortion mills aren’t exactly known for morality. These are, after all, places where women go to have their babies murdered. When people are already engaged in murder, a little lying doesn’t matter a whole lot. Without the reporting requirement, every woman desiring an abortion after 20 weeks will simply be told by the murdering clinic to claim rape. As such, the number of abortions over 20 weeks wouldn’t be reduced by one. With the reporting requirement, at least women would have to go through the process of reporting a rape. If they file a false police report, at least they could be prosecuted for it.
Rather than defending the lives of the unborn, the Republicans are concerned with false optics. The Democrats are going to cry war on women whether the Republicans pass the bill as written or not. Rather than boldly leading, the Republicans are cowering over Democrat threats. Worse, they’re listening to consultants and campaign wizards, who haven’t exactly done a good job for the GOP on the national stage in the last decade. What the Republicans really have done is show their weakness to the entire country. Worse, they showed their weakness to the Democrats. It’s clear the GOP is afraid of the war on women narrative. After years of Democrats crying war on women and the media echoing the claim, the Republicans are terrified of being accused of hating women.
The entire war on women claim is of course utterly absurd. The majority of women are pro-life. The majority of women support banning abortions after 20 weeks. The Republicans have never elected more women to the House and Senate than they did in 2014, this despite the war on women drumbeat from the Democrats and press. Nevertheless, when the Democrats start crying war on women, the Republicans cave. Apparently they’ll even cave over a core base issue such as abortion. If the Republicans aren’t willing to pass a 20 week abortion ban under a certain veto from Obama, what are they willing to do on this issue? We’re getting to the point where it’s legitimate for base Republicans to wonder whether the party is pro-life or committed to the pro-life position. If Republicans are unwilling to defend the rights of the unborn, why are pro-life conservatives wasting their time voting Republican?
Abortion is another in a long line of issues wherein the Republican Party has abandoned its base. They’ve abandoned the base on spending and taxes, having done nothing to curb the growing national debt which is up $7.5 trillion since Obama took office. The GOP has abandoned the base on immigration, refusing to defund Obama’s unilateral and unconstitutional amnesty executive orders. Now they’re abandoning the base over abortion, all because they’re afraid of Democrats crying war on women. At what point do conservatives say enough is enough? We’re getting to the point where conservatives are beginning to give up on the GOP. Conservatives sunk Mitt Romney in 2012, the GOP acts as though they don’t realize it. How many elections must the Republicans lose before they listen to their conservative base? If they cannot or will not defend the rights of the unborn, we might get an answer sooner rather than later.
Another monumental reason for a third party. I have lost all respect for the republican party these past years as they have lost their direction. Conservatism isn’t what it used to be and the rinos have demonstrated that over and over.
Cowards, yes. Traitors, yes.
I’m certainly heading in that direction. My concern is that there just aren’t enough conservatives in this country anymore. We have largely lost the culture war. Just look at homosexual marriage. In just a decade that issue has gone from being widely opposed to having majority support. To say nothing of tolerating sexually deviant homosexuals. A generation ago, homosexual acts were widely opposed. Today, polls show overwhelming support for homosexuals.
We are a nation that is all to willing to abandon Christian morality for everything goes progressive post-modernism. We’ve lost because we have not done a very good job advocating absolute truth. The left on the other hand has done a magnificent job pushing post-modernism (read: there is no truth). They’ve done it via public schools, the media, entertainment etc. We’re so far behind, I wonder if a third party would do anything to curb the problem. Even people who call themselves conservatives bury their heads in the sand when it comes to public schools and entertainment, pretending that everything is okay in their family or with their children. If our people are fooling themselves, how can we ever expect to convince others of truth?
Cowards and traitors indeed.
I was neither elated, nor hopeful, following the 2014 election; particularly so after Boner and McTurtle were elected as “leaders.”
What will play-out over the next two years will be seen in retrospect as the death throes of the Republican Party.
They don’t need me, so I don’t need them.
Read Jeffrey C. Tuomala's "Nuremberg and the Crime of Abortion."
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