Posted on 04/05/2007 8:46:45 PM PDT by Pistolshot
Sherrod Brown, Harry Reid they need only change to the Republican party and you could vote for these two 20%ers. You know if they had an R after their name you would vote for them.
There was a piece earlier today on Rush where Rudy even said he supported state funded abortions. He doesn’t just have a toe in the water. He’s John the Baptist, fully in the water!
Fortunately it ain’t my decision, but it seems to me that the only way to significantly reduce the number of abortions is to keep it legal but start an active, explicit government policy to reduce the number of abortions. Then get groups like Planned Parenthood out of the “counseling” business. My point really is that this is a tough, complex, emotional issue and people tend to oversimplify it.
That's easy. Women would still get abortions. But now we can send them to the gas chamber for murder.
Yes, it’s a very tough issue. Advancing medical technolgy has created a lot of difficult decisions for people.
But I don't operate out of fear so no argument based on pushing my 'fear buttons' has any effect. I also don't operate in the past or future and Rudy vs Hillary is a hypothetical future. I don't need to make decisions about that.
What is happening now is the pre-Primary season and there are a couple of excellent, highly qualified, very conservative candidates running and I will support them as long as they are running.
Are you going to cast a vote for someone who believes that killing all those children was a constitutional right?
You have been given the right to vote in an election. That is a God given right and you are a steward of that vote and you will some day answer to God for the manner in which you used that gift.
Will you be able to say that you used it for good or for evil?
To whom much is given, much shall be required.
I didn't base my position on that. This is more what bothers me...
Still More Rudy on Abortion Funding (Cirque de Soliel could need you Rudy)
That is not a serious argument.
Yes, and what I’m getting at is that state funded abortions are the absolute kiss of death for the pro-life crowd. If they don’t even get a horse in this race they are going to feel left out and the Republicans are then going to be shut. Then there’s the border issue and the gun issue.
I’ve been told that these are non-issues in the upcoming race. I disagree.
Personally I would like it if we had a place to mark 'none of the above' and if none got the majority of the vote, we start again with new candidates. But for now, when there is no good choice, I can still do a write in.
Sometimes choosing not to choose can be the best choice.
As a life member of the NRA since '86 I think I know how they will stand.
Murder is illegal and you can make money from it. Maybe we should legalize it so we can tax it and regulate it.
Oh wait, we already did.
Without Carter we would never have had Reagan.
“To: Pistolshot
I guess I made a mistake thinking this thread was about manners and civility. Silly me.
128 posted on 04/05/2007 9:36:14 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.) “
Y’all missed the point of the original post. And proved it perhaps.
There are people here who seem to me perfectly prepared to lose the White House, and aren't willing to compromise at all in order to keep it.
There are some issues on which I am more than willing to compromise. There are others that do not lend themselves to comrpomise. Some issues are black and white, good and evil. Abortion is one. It is the hill upon which I am prepared to die.
We can surrender some hills and still win the war, but if we surrender on this hill in order to win, then we will have lost that for which we had so sorely fought. We must hold this hill or we must die trying.
Well, I can appreciate your convictions, but to be perfectly honest (no offense intended, I promise...I'm just giving you my true reaction), I deeply resent the position you're putting the country in by being so unyielding. I think the War on Terror is the most important issue of our time, more important than anything else. I can't live with Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton commanding our troops. The very thought of it repulses and frightens me. For this reason, I will do whatever I can to see a Republican in the White House in 2008. I'm very, very sorry that you won't.
You'll probably "die" on that "hill", and slaughter the rest of us alongside you, satisfied with yourself that you stood firm. Yay for you.
Don't you ever get tired of making a damn fool out of yourself?
You're suppose to be some big political know it all and you can't put two sentences together without trashing somebody with something you think is a snappy retort but lands like a rock.
It must suck to be you.
All through this thread you have spewed similar things at other posters. I assume you are doing this in the interest of rational discourse, but for the life of me, I just can't see how this is supposed to achieve those ends, unless you just want to browbeat everyone off the Howlin show.
Give the snyde crap a rest, willya?
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