Posted on 11/13/2004 6:05:41 AM PST by cpforlife.org
PRO-LIFE WARNING TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
We believe that abortion is infanticide, and that a holocaust of infants is taking place. We do not believe that there is any other issue on Earth that compares with abortion in moral import. And therefore, there is no policy or combination of policies you Republicans can offer, including perfect tax policies, tort reform, and every other thing that is near and dear to Republican hearts, that matters a damn if abortion is overlooked and allowed to slide by.
We know that this issue has to be settled in the Supreme Court, nowhere else. And we know that the opportunity to put new justices on the court comes once in a decade, maybe, and that the current opportunity to alter the complexion of the court is not going to come again for a generation. Therefore, the real possibility exists that abortion can finally be seriously curtailed, soon, by the Supreme Court changing Roe v. Wade or eliminating it...IF, and ONLY IF, we can get pro-life judges on that court.
To do that, we have trusted the Republicans for years. We just came out and voted for you again this time, in unprecedented numbers, because we are not stupid and we know what is at stake. Not just evangelicals either. The religious CATHOLIC vote went Republican in 2004, and they didn't do it because of trade policy or even gay marriage. Their issue is abortion.
And the overriding issue is abortion.
So, if the Republicans allow Senator Specter to get the Chair of the Judiciary Committee and he blocks pro-life nominees, or if the Republicans do not use the nuclear option to override Democrat filibusters of pro-life nominees, THIS TIME there is no place for Republicans to hide. WE KNOW that you have the power, now, because WE just voted to give it to you. We understand that you can block Specter. And we understand the nuclear option.
And therefore, we most certainly will understand that if you allow the pro-life judges to be blocked, that it will be your political CHOICE to have done so. You CAN put pro-life judges on the bench, if you expend a lot of political capital. This will offend some people - a lot of people. And that is the price you HAVE to pay to get our votes next time. You have to be willing to bet the whole house to end infanticide.
If not, we will not vote for you. We won't go running to vote for the Democrats: they're pro-abortion. We won't go out and form a third party: we're not stupid and know that won't work. We'll just stay home, just like we did in 2000. Except that in 2000 it was out of frustration and neglect, and the lack of belief that anything will change. There was no organized campaign to keep the pro-life vote home in 2000.
This time, it's different. We understand the system, and we know that you have the power. And we demand that you use the power straight down the line to fill the high court and the appellate courts with judges who will protect the lives of babies. Period. This is not negotiable. At all. This is why we voted for you. You have nothing with which to bargain with us, and if you screw us, we will stay organized and we will stay home purposely to destroy the Republican party. Because if you do not protect the babies when you have the power to do it, you are no better than the Democrats...and worse, you will have lied to us.
This means, in effect, that all of those things YOU care most about: taxation, immigration, trade and business policy, deregulation - all of those core issues that come as an economic package, are held hostage to our issue: babies. If you will not protect the babies, we will stay home and let the Democrats destroy everything that YOU believe in.
This is called "Chicken". It is called a "Mexican Standoff". And since we are fired up by the certitude that we are doing God's work in defending babies, we cannot be bought, and you cannot win so much as an election for dog catcher in this country without us.
Therefore, the solution is simple and obvious: give us what we voted for you to do. Give us pro-life judges. Use all of your power to do it. Sweep Specter out of the way: is he worth losing all the rest of your agenda? - because we really will stay home and throw the country to the Democrats if you're no better than they are on abortion, just to punish YOU for having betrayed us. When the filibusters come, and they will come, use the nuclear option to override them. That will poison the Senate, yes. So what? We are talking about babies here. And with our votes, militantly mobilized because we are winning, alongside of yours, in 2006 and 2008 and beyond, even if the Senate is poisoned, you will be able to replace it with a more Republican one.
That there is even a debate going on as to what to do with Specter is alarming, but we have had our hearts broken before, so we'll sit and pray and trust President Bush and Senator Frist and the Republicans to do the right thing.
Screw us, though, and we will turn on you and your whole agenda will go down the drain with the blood of the babies you wouldn't put your power on the line to save.
The easy solution, the win-win solution, is to BE as pro-life as you campaigned as being. Just do it.
I apologize for the length of this post. But it needed to be said. The Republicans do not seem to get it. They need to understand that we are more committed to saving babies than we are to the fortunes of the Republican Party. That Specter is still in play demonstrates that too many of them do not take this seriously.
Rather than test us, what you guys should do is simply cave, now, and give us what we want. Do that, and you wont hear from us again - there will be no creeping theocracy in America - because this is about the only religious issue that Catholics and Orthodox and Evangelicals AGREE on.
Well GOP if you really want to burn 15M of your supporters without which you will not see the office of dogcatcher, let alone President, for a good long time if ever... BE OUR GUEST.
Sorry. Not reading past there; if that's the best you've got, I'm not playing.
I need to take some time off and do a real close look at all the threads since the election. It would be nice to see just how many base(s) elected the President, how many individual groups and/or people he owes the election to exclusively, and how many of them are demanding their way or else?
But he didn't.
The way I see it, we got rid of Daschle's overt obstructionism, there's no sense in tolerating Specter's covert obstructionism when we have such a big win to launch from.
No way he could deliver on a policy like that without gutting Roe.
Oh, it's WAY more than claimed they kept Bush 41 out of the White House for a second term!
15M. Well that would give him a 45M buffer. Okay.
:-)
You must not have been paying attention for the last five years; George W. Bush says what he means and does what he says.
He doesn't need YOU interpreting his words; he says them himself; if you're counting on him gutting Roe, you might as well change your registration now.
Got a direct line to Arlen?
Yeah, I know quite a few there as well. They're pro-life too, part of the GOP majority, and in about the same percentages as in the GOP generally.
Pro-death Republicans have their meetings in a phone booth most everywhere.
Hey, EV. Good to see you too.
He's heading toward 62 million as we type.
This many people don't just go nowhere. They start third parties.
Well, in what cloud-cuckoo-land do you see him being able to make good on this promise in a Roe-ful world?
Yes, the last resort of those who want to eliminate themselves from the political process. Now there's a real step forward.
Exhibit A of your nastiness.
No, I never said that 60 million "went to the polls because of pro-life issues." I know that I voted pro-life (and that I campaigned for the President on that point), and believe that a large number, if not a majority, of those 60 million are prolife.
If a blatant error such as the one Specter made last week is ignored, and because of that error, we get more of the same (i.e., "Scottish law defence," "Roe is the law of the land") when he can effect the outcome, our Party is not using its power effectively. Our elected representatives cannot expect to gain or maintain support from the voters if they support unwise politicians who can't be quiet for a couple of weeks.
I'm sure that your vote would not be affected if the Republican Party managed to overcome Roe, would it?
The point is they don't stay 15 million. They grow. You think Libertarians are a nightmare, you ain't see nothing yet.
If Roe was gutted by the GOP, Howlin would vote Green.
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